{"id":2451475,"date":"2019-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=316513"},"modified":"2019-11-24T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T00:09:31","slug":"free-speech-therapy-for-the-offended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/free-speech-therapy-for-the-offended\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-speech therapy for the offended"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A local paper reported the formation of a therapy group for those disturbed about climate change. That was free speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When I wrote a letter ridiculing the snowflakes, an online commenter said my letter should be banned (<a id=\"N0x148e7e0N0x15c63a0:N0x148e7e0N0x167b100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/a-good-time-to-chill-in-aspen\/\">\u201cA good time to chill in Aspen,\u201d<\/a> Nov. 19, aspentimes.com). Perhaps the snowflakes\u2019 therapy group also should encompass those disturbed by free speech. Or maybe it already does.<\/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\/free-speech-therapy-for-the-offended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper reported the formation of a therapy group for those disturbed about climate change. That was free speech. When I wrote a letter ridiculing the snowflakes, an online commenter said my letter should be banned (\u201cA good time to chill in Aspen,\u201d Nov. 19, aspentimes.com). Perhaps the snowflakes\u2019 therapy group also should encompass [&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":["post-2451475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 05:14:32","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\/2451475","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=2451475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451512,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451475\/revisions\/2451512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}