{"id":2208,"date":"2017-03-05T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/05\/2017-3-5-a-very-short-respite-html\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T18:46:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T02:46:46","slug":"2017-3-5-a-very-short-respite-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/2017-3-5-a-very-short-respite-html\/","title":{"rendered":"A (very) Short Respite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/IMG_2657.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/IMG_2657.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A lovely centered picture of a mountain, a building, and some cars\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFriends,<\/p>\n<p>I seem to be suffering lately from a fatigue brought on by an elderly orange man from Florida who has managed to destabilize this great country using little more than a Twitter account. He has surrounded himself by right-wing ideologues, dullards, kleptocrats, toadies and various hangers-on who are working with this elderly orange man to frighten old ladies and Australians while annoying Sweden and other people whose worldview hews towards facts and logic.<\/p>\n<p>Because I count myself among both the frightened and annoyed camps, I&#8217;m grateful to take a little break. This piney paradise, while not cut off from media, insists that inhabitants go outside and enjoy this gift.<\/p>\n<p>Until the new Secretary of the Interior sells off the forest to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<p>Dammit. So much for my break.<\/p>\n<p>Your best pal,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I seem to be suffering lately from a fatigue brought on by an elderly orange man from Florida who has managed to destabilize this great country using little more than a Twitter account. He has surrounded himself by right-wing ideologues, dullards, kleptocrats, toadies and various hangers-on who are working with this elderly orange man &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/2017-3-5-a-very-short-respite-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A (very) Short Respite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,12,18],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-patriotism","tag-politics","tag-punditry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}