{"id":2407,"date":"2019-12-24T16:57:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2019\/12\/24\/another-curmudgeon-speaks\/"},"modified":"2019-12-24T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:57:29","slug":"another-curmudgeon-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2019\/12\/24\/another-curmudgeon-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Curmudgeon Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Depending on how you understand the curmudgeon personality, it has either been a difficult year or a year in which curmudgeons have plenty to complain about. The leadership of the country has led us all into a very dark time. Fear and hate are never a way to move the country forward or to gain respect from others. When fear and hate compound self-centeredness, we abandon too many people who need help. Label the concern for the less fortunate as socialism if you must, but citizens should not be put off by a label they don\u2019t understand from going the right thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our local paper, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/the-curmudgeon-a-holiday-essay-by-pete-hautman\/565792972\/?optimizely_disable=true\">Star Tribune recently offered a recent essay<\/a> showing the good heart at the core of we curmudgeons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on how you understand the curmudgeon personality, it has either been a difficult year or a year in which curmudgeons have plenty to complain about. The leadership of the country has led us all into a very dark time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2019\/12\/24\/another-curmudgeon-speaks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}