{"id":2442919,"date":"2019-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=304050"},"modified":"2019-04-15T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:22:02","slug":"whos-being-obtuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/whos-being-obtuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s being obtuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A friend informed me he thought a letter I wrote to the papers was too obtuse for readers (<a id=\"N0x26e1b30N0x2794060:N0x26e1b30N0x27db060\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/from-the-department-of-sarcasm-2\/\">\u201cFrom the Department of Sarcasm,\u201d<\/a> April 9, The Aspen Times). That made me think.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When I wrote a letter urging year-round municipal election campaigns to permit more tedious political speeches and redundant endorsement letters to the papers, I received emails saying I was the only person in town who wanted year-round campaigns. When I alerted the county commissioners that a letter to U.S. senators (which the commissioners had written), inaccurately addressing a national issue that\u2019s none of the commissioners\u2019 business, must be a \u201choax,\u201d the county manager emailed me \u201con behalf of the county commissioners\u201d assuring me their letter wasn\u2019t a hoax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Is it my letters that are obtuse?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Maurice Emmer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/whos-being-obtuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend informed me he thought a letter I wrote to the papers was too obtuse for readers (\u201cFrom the Department of Sarcasm,\u201d April 9, The Aspen Times). That made me think. When I wrote a letter urging year-round municipal election campaigns to permit more tedious political speeches and redundant endorsement letters to the papers, [&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-2442919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 16:19:11","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\/2442919","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=2442919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}