{"id":2444561,"date":"2019-05-23T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/cranky-columnist-gets-in-leftys-craw\/"},"modified":"2019-05-23T21:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T03:15:37","slug":"cranky-columnist-gets-in-leftys-craw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/cranky-columnist-gets-in-leftys-craw\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranky columnist gets in lefty\u2019s craw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Glenn Beaton\u2019s last opinion piece was just plain mean and stupid (<a id=\"N0x27e7c80N0x28ace00:N0x27e7c80N0x27fb4e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/glenn-k-beaton-aspens-lefties-mourn-paradise-lost-but-celebrate-utopia-fou\/\">\u201cAspen\u2019s lefties mourn Paradise Lost but celebrate Utopia Found,\u201d<\/a> May 19, The Aspen Times. Glenn and his crusty old fart brothers pretty much state that \u201cAspen lefties\u201d should be in the same realm as Castro, Pol Pot and the country of Venezuela. These old bickering farts sound as bad as Trump. I am pretty progressive and left-leaning, but I know that I am not like Castro and the dictatorship of Venezuela at all. Also, to bring in Pol Pot into this piece \u2014 if you really want to call it that \u2014 is downright stupid, as that dictator killed a million or so people. Maybe Glenn should write about dictator wannabe Trump more often.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Miles Knudson<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/cranky-columnist-gets-in-leftys-craw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Beaton\u2019s last opinion piece was just plain mean and stupid (\u201cAspen\u2019s lefties mourn Paradise Lost but celebrate Utopia Found,\u201d May 19, The Aspen Times. Glenn and his crusty old fart brothers pretty much state that \u201cAspen lefties\u201d should be in the same realm as Castro, Pol Pot and the country of Venezuela. These old [&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-2444561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 17:04:05","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\/2444561","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=2444561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444563,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444561\/revisions\/2444563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}