{"id":2455312,"date":"2020-03-03T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/living-in-an-old-white-mans-world\/"},"modified":"2020-03-04T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T14:33:00","slug":"living-in-an-old-white-mans-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/living-in-an-old-white-mans-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in an old white man\u2019s world"},"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\">Hate to say it, but it looks like our next presidential election is going to be like an expanded sequel of the movie \u201cGrumpy Old Men.\u201d The Democratic candidate will be one of three men who will all be 77 or 78 on Election Day. And Donald Trump will be the youngster at 74. Nothing against the elderly, I\u2019m one of them. But in this ever-changing challenging world, I think we would be better off if these guys stuck to golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">All the younger progressive smart candidates are out of the race. Perhaps between the constant vicious attacks and negativity, better candidates just don\u2019t want the job. We\u2019ve lost all respect for those who would run our wonderful country. There is no working together, only bitterness, fighting, investigations,and name-calling. It\u2019s at the point where friends and neighbors stop talking to each other if they don\u2019t share the same views. And the press, news media and internet blogs feed the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">What has our nation become?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Eric Simon<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/living-in-an-old-white-mans-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate to say it, but it looks like our next presidential election is going to be like an expanded sequel of the movie \u201cGrumpy Old Men.\u201d The Democratic candidate will be one of three men who will all be 77 or 78 on Election Day. And Donald Trump will be the youngster at 74. Nothing [&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-2455312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 12:30:22","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\/2455312","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=2455312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455348,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455312\/revisions\/2455348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}