{"id":2453837,"date":"2020-01-28T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-times-strikes-out-with-will\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:53:10","slug":"aspen-times-strikes-out-with-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-times-strikes-out-with-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Times strikes out with Will"},"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\">Words can hardly express what I felt when I turned to Sunday\u2019s opinion page, to find that the gaping hole created by Glenn Beaton\u2019s removal had been plugged with a column by (drum roll, please) the Washington Beltway\u2019s very own George Will, opining on such a riveting, hot button local issue as Catalan independence! At long last! I mean, Aspen is definitely all about Catalonia. Go, Catalans! (Or not \u2014 Will mostly sneered at their efforts, with the same cosmopolitan, globalist raised eyebrows that he directs at Brexit and America First.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Not to be outdone by \u201cthe other paper,\u201d which periodically dishes up disdainful tripe by Kathleen Parker, you have landed on a \u201cconservative\u201d voice that is equally uninspiring, if not galling, to both Donald Trump supporters and progressive Democrats. Nobody likes him, except, perhaps, Aspen Institute types eager to \u201cbalance out\u201d their next one-sided, stultifyingly dull panel discussion on the future of decency and truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">So congratulations. The only things Will and Beaton have in common is a love of baseball and a respect for the English language. You\u2019ve given us that much continuity at least, but it\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Chad Klinger<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/aspen-times-strikes-out-with-will\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words can hardly express what I felt when I turned to Sunday\u2019s opinion page, to find that the gaping hole created by Glenn Beaton\u2019s removal had been plugged with a column by (drum roll, please) the Washington Beltway\u2019s very own George Will, opining on such a riveting, hot button local issue as Catalan independence! At [&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-2453837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 18:40:05","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\/2453837","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=2453837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453918,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453837\/revisions\/2453918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}