{"id":6948,"date":"2024-10-18T21:43:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T02:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6948"},"modified":"2024-10-19T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T02:11:41","slug":"wrecking-ball-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6948","title":{"rendered":"2-WRECKING BALL &#8211; RESPONSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read WRECKING BALL first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An immediate response came from a very dear friend, criticizing Trump, and me for voting for him.<br>Out of personal respect for my friend, I am sharing only my side of the interaction.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My response in return:<br>&#8220;I knew you don&#8217;t agree with me, before I sent the text.<br>That doesn&#8217;t keep me or excuse me from sending the truth as I see it to a couple hundred people on my phone.<br>You might note my wording was directed at the damage by the democrats.<br>That is unmistakable, undeniable.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>I have no illusions about either candidate, or their vp&#8217;s.<br>Their policies, and their track records in office, are the basis for voting, not their personalities.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>I did not mention Trump, but I will respond to what you said.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>+ Trump does not claim to be a Christian.<br>He does not meet the criteria.<br>+ I do not wait to vote only for a Christian candidate.<br>+ I will vote for him because his policies and his record in office were and are good for America.<br>+ His &#8216;conviction&#8217; and &#8216;trials&#8217; are the efforts of his political enemies, because he stands in the way of their goal to change America.<br>So do I !<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>After this election republicans in office may or may not save America&#8212;but the democrats in charge will definitely destroy this country, because they want something different than America&#8212;and it is evil, not good.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>I can list details backing this up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read WRECKING BALL first. An immediate response came from a very dear friend, criticizing Trump, and me for voting for him.Out of personal respect for my friend, I am sharing only my side of the interaction. My response in return:&#8220;I knew you don&#8217;t agree with me, before I sent the text.That doesn&#8217;t keep me or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6974,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions\/6974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}