{"id":2438301,"date":"2019-01-31T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/confession-of-a-barbarian\/"},"modified":"2019-01-31T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:36:00","slug":"confession-of-a-barbarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/confession-of-a-barbarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession of a barbarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Already quite comfortable wearing the label &#8220;Deplorable&#8221; as a badge of honor, I woke up on Monday to find that Aspen Times columnist Paul Andersen deems me to be a &#8220;barbarian&#8221; (<a id=\"N0x1238bb0N0x1251ee0:N0x1238bb0N0x1230180\" href=\":\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/paul-andersen-fighting-back-against-the-barbarians\/\">&#8220;Fighting back against the barbarians,&#8221;<\/a> commentary, Jan. 28).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Boy howdy. Following Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s example (&#8220;I&#8217;m going to go get me a beer&#8221;), I&#8217;m going to get me a yellow vest and a red MAGA hat, and then I&#8217;m going to strew beer cans all over the Thompson Divide, before sacking Carbondale on my way home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Chad Klinger<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/confession-of-a-barbarian\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already quite comfortable wearing the label &#8220;Deplorable&#8221; as a badge of honor, I woke up on Monday to find that Aspen Times columnist Paul Andersen deems me to be a &#8220;barbarian&#8221; (&#8220;Fighting back against the barbarians,&#8221; commentary, Jan. 28). Boy howdy. Following Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s example (&#8220;I&#8217;m going to go get me a beer&#8221;), I&#8217;m going [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2438301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 01:44:22","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}