{"id":8633,"date":"2017-10-19T21:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T04:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8633"},"modified":"2017-10-19T21:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T04:04:32","slug":"31-days-of-my-world-as-it-is-sung-free-speech-edition-of-my-7-quick-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8633","title":{"rendered":"31 Days of My World As It Is Sung: Free Speech Edition of My 7 Quick Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free speech.<\/strong> I just saw on Facebook that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-41683713\">Richard Spencer&#8217;s speech has ended<\/a>. The furor over it reminded me of when Milo Yiannopolous attempted to speak at UC Berkeley and they had to cancel it because of the protests. I got pretty sick of having to explain to morons on Facebook that <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1357\/\">your right to free speech does not mean that your speech is free of consequences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Milo&#8217;s speech also marked the beginning of my policy of unfollowing and unfriending anyone on my wall who used the term &#8220;libtard&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stories about the good in people.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/hopeless\/\">This<\/a> has been a fortunate find and has restored some of my faith in humanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>97.<\/strong> My grandma turns 97 years old today. We&#8217;ll be having 19 (!!!!) people at the house for dinner on Saturday&#8230; which should be interesting. 2 1\/2 recipes of goulash, spaetzle, various salads, and half of a sheet cake will be appearing tomorrow and Saturday. My evil twin and his long-suffering wife will arrive tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Really?<\/strong> Apparently,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/trump-gives-administration-10-puerto-rico-recovery-n812321\">45 gives himself and his administration a 10\/10 for Puerto Rico disaster recovery efforts<\/a>. Geez&#8230; grade inflation is out of control! [\/sarcasm]<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; an A+ effort means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/puerto-ricans-still-struggling-month-after-hurricane-maria-hit-n811976\">a widespread lack of electricity and drinkable water<\/a>. Huh. Pretty sure Obama would have been crucified for his disaster relief efforts if they had been like 45&#8217;s in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You mean politicians can work together?<\/strong> Props to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/356244-bipartisan-obamacare-deal-has-24-co-sponsors\">the 24 senators co-sponsoring a bill to save the Affordable Care Act<\/a>. I am especially proud that Patty Murray, my senator, was one of the leaders in putting this together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerequisite baseball take.<\/strong> The Horrible Team from LA is apparently going to be in the World Series. I guess I&#8217;ll be rooting for the American League this year, even if it&#8217;s the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>*vomits at the thought of the Dodgers in the World Series*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some music.<\/strong> Enjoy this new song from <a href=\"https:\/\/rendcollective.com\">Rend Collective<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rend Collective - Rescuer (Good News) [Official Music Video]\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAg7rn7fH3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/write31daysmyworld.jpg\" alt=\"31 Days of My World As It Is Sung\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; Free speech. I just saw on Facebook that Richard Spencer&#8217;s speech has ended. The furor over it reminded me of when Milo Yiannopolous attempted to speak at UC Berkeley and they had to cancel it because of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8633\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,4,7,26,17,12,18,67,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-family","category-memes-and-link-ups","category-music","category-personal-issues","category-politics","category-sports","category-write-31-days","category-write-31-days-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-2ff","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8634,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions\/8634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}