{"id":2585,"date":"2012-01-24T20:50:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2012-01-24T20:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:50:24","slug":"bruins-thomas-evades-white-house-photo-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/bruins-thomas-evades-white-house-photo-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins&#039; Thomas Evades White House Photo Op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I applaud this man;s civility in explaining his choice, and his discretion in choosing not to tshow up, rather than make some sort of scene.  If this is grandstanding, we have little to complain about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country.\n\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/2012\/01\/23\/bruins-goalie-thomas-declines-white-house-visit-for-political-reasons\/'>Bruins Goalie Thomas Declines White House Visit For Political Reasons | Fox News<\/a>.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He is a Glenn Beck fan and I probably have little in common with him politically, but I like his plain and polite style&#8211;it befits a public figure, particularly an athlete whom children are likely to emulate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2585\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2585\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I applaud this man;s civility in explaining his choice, and his discretion in choosing not to tshow up, rather than make some sort of scene. If this is grandstanding, we have little to complain about.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}