{"id":805518,"date":"2020-03-20T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380774"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:36:09","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-summit-daily-news-must-shut-down-morgan-liddick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-summit-daily-news-must-shut-down-morgan-liddick\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Summit Daily News must shut down Morgan Liddick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/LettersWebCard-SDN-1-1024x638.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/opinion-morgan-liddick-blind-coronavirus-panic\/\">Morgan Liddick\u2019s column<\/a> from March 17 that downplays the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic is so full of ignorance that I won\u2019t even bother to address his specific misunderstandings. I doubt anyone, or any amount of real data and scientifically based information, will change the mind of someone who so callously disregards the welfare of his fellow citizens. I implore the editors of the Summit Daily News to shut down this columnist. This is not a matter of free speech or personal opinion. This is not a matter of being on the right or the left. It\u2019s a matter of the only newspaper that serves our community becoming ethically responsible. It\u2019s time to step up and do the right thing, Summit Daily News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-summit-daily-news-must-shut-down-morgan-liddick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Liddick\u2019s column from March 17 that downplays the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic is so full of ignorance that I won\u2019t even bother to address his specific misunderstandings. I doubt anyone, or any amount of real data and scientifically based information, will change the mind of someone who so callously disregards the welfare of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 19:10:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}