{"id":4403,"date":"2017-10-30T22:29:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T02:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2017-10-30T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T02:29:13","slug":"as-november-4-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/as-november-4-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"AS NOVEMBER 4 APPROACHES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish you, your kids and your grandkids a happy and safe Halloween.\u00a0 It has become our country\u2019s purest \u201cfun\u201d holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are some other folks planning on wearing masks, and trafficking more in tricks than treats, a few short days thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of talk about the events of this coming Saturday, November 4, and mass demonstrations planned thereupon.\u00a0 Some say nothing is going to happen at all, and it\u2019s all an alt-right hoax.\u00a0 Others say a new American Revolution is slated to begin.\u00a0 The truth seems to be in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>One of The Usual Suspects is sending out a rather <a href=\"https:\/\/refusefascism.org\/2017\/08\/06\/this-nightmare-must-end-the-trumppence-regime-must-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blatant call for revolution.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And many in law enforcement are \u2013 wisely, I think \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/secondcitycop.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/are-you-ready.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taking it seriously<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I\u2019ll be surprised if it turns into anything more than another \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d sort of demonstration.\u00a0 That said, there are some violent, armed psychos on both sides of this just itching for an excuse to aggrandize themselves by doing harm. One rumor has it that some of the antifas are going to wear \u201cTrump\u201d logo clothing or \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d shirts and caps to further confuse the issue.\u00a0 Should violence break out, that will make it all the harder to tell \u201cwho\u2019s who.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My best advice?\u00a0 If one of these demonstrations is planned in or near your community, DON\u2019T GO.\u00a0 I once again offer the advice of the comedic poet Ogden Nash: \u201cWhen called by a panther\u2026don\u2019t anther.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish you, your kids and your grandkids a happy and safe Halloween.\u00a0 It has become our country\u2019s purest \u201cfun\u201d holiday. Unfortunately, there are some other folks planning on wearing masks, and trafficking more in tricks than treats, a few short days thereafter. There has been a lot of talk about the events of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4404,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/4404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}