{"id":2453152,"date":"2020-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=319008"},"modified":"2020-01-13T08:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:58:17","slug":"words-should-matter-but-they-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/words-should-matter-but-they-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Words should matter but they don\u2019t"},"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\">I respectfully disagree with the thrust of the editorial, \u201c<a id=\"N0x16ba2c0N0x16df070:N0x16ba2c0N0x1893bf0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/what-aspen-councilman-said-is-his-right-its-how-and-where-that-matter\/\">What Aspen councilman said is his right, it\u2019s how and where that matter<\/a>\u201d (Jan. 10, 2020). While office holders should be accountable for their public utterances, today they are not. We live in a society of reflexive all-inclusive communications. There is no pause button on Twitter or Instagram. Those communications are just spittle, a meaningless stream of conscience. Such are easily overwritten, twisted from the truth or simply disavowed. President Trump is exhibit 1 to infinity. Skippy is merely exhibit infinity+1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And there is no \u201chow and where.\u201d The circumstances, timing and manner are irrelevant. Once the send button is hit, the message is worldwide and irretrievable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Simply put, contrary to the editorial, today, words do not matter to many public officials. Rather, the guiding mantra in this environment should be that actions speak louder than words. Unfortunately, applied to our rudderless and inept City Council, all we have are a lot of words and very little action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Neil B. Siegel<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/columns\/words-should-matter-but-they-dont\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I respectfully disagree with the thrust of the editorial, \u201cWhat Aspen councilman said is his right, it\u2019s how and where that matter\u201d (Jan. 10, 2020). While office holders should be accountable for their public utterances, today they are not. We live in a society of reflexive all-inclusive communications. There is no pause button on Twitter [&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-2453152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 21:03:31","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\/2453152","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=2453152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453162,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453152\/revisions\/2453162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}