{"id":2446160,"date":"2019-07-09T21:44:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/beware-the-ides-of-marching\/"},"modified":"2019-07-10T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T19:20:15","slug":"beware-the-ides-of-marching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/beware-the-ides-of-marching\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the ides of marching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">How refreshing to have some back-and-forth on the appropriateness of protests in Aspen\u2019s small town Independence Day parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While I initially leaned toward the ideal of the event being not confrontational (lest of course one is anti-American), Bill Barnhart has a point that protests and discord are indeed very American (<a id=\"N0x20c2be0N0x1e9b640:N0x20c2be0N0x1f668e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/protests-are-the-american-way\/\">\u201cProtests are the American way,\u201d<\/a> letters, July 7, aspentimes.com). With that in mind, perhaps we should invite groups with even wider points of view next year such as the Proud Boys and Antifa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Trey Kinkead<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/beware-the-ides-of-marching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How refreshing to have some back-and-forth on the appropriateness of protests in Aspen\u2019s small town Independence Day parade. While I initially leaned toward the ideal of the event being not confrontational (lest of course one is anti-American), Bill Barnhart has a point that protests and discord are indeed very American (\u201cProtests are the American way,\u201d [&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-2446160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 01:36:07","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\/2446160","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=2446160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446194,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446160\/revisions\/2446194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}