{"id":1435,"date":"2018-12-18T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2020-02-15T18:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T01:47:52","slug":"vaykaynotice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/2018\/12\/18\/vaykaynotice\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Notice: Taking a Protest Break. Will Return 2019-01-07"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve posted an article on my website every week since November 1st<\/sup>, 2015. This is article number 174. Most of the stuff I write here is prompted or inspired by real news articles. But the brouhaha about the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” did a so-much-better job than I can of satirizing current events in general and the current climate of sensitivity in particular that my brain froze.<\/p>\n

Competing with that stupidity is the shambles in the UK as Brexit continues to divide a nation for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

And of course there is an elephant in the newsroom, whose name is Nellie. If you need that explained, here\u2019s an excerpt from the lyrics to a song\u2026<\/p>\n

Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
\nAnd said goodbye to the circus
\nOff she went with a trumpety trump
\nTrump, trump, trump\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to take a piece of non-Trump news and make it more risible than Trump news.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the word \u201ctrump\u201d is an early sixteenth-century alteration of \u201ctriumph\u201d\u2014a great victory or achievement. We still don\u2019t know if his victory was legitimate, legally or morally. But based on what I read on a range of newsfeeds from multiple countries around the world, he is the out-and-out, absolute, complete and utter, comprehensive, total antithesis of what I was raised to regard as a decent person. He scares me. He disgusts me.<\/p>\n

And the news is full of him. Trump, trump, trump\u2026<\/p>\n

In the face of so much competition, I’ve decided to take a protest break. I need to get over the frustration of so much simultaneous stupidity; frustration that’s interfering with the creative juices.<\/p>\n

I will post here again on January 7th, 2019.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve posted an article on my website every week since November 1st, 2015. This is article number 174. Most of the stuff I write here is prompted or inspired by real news articles. But the brouhaha about the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” did a so-much-better job than I can of satirizing current events in general and the current climate… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[641],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-simultaneous-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}