{"id":8783,"date":"2009-09-25T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8783"},"modified":"2009-09-25T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T18:01:41","slug":"and-so-the-war-begins-once-again-open-letter-to-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8783","title":{"rendered":"And so, the war begins once again&#8230; (Open letter to Obama)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/drgrumpyinthehouse.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/dear-president-obama.html\">neurologist&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear President Obama,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing to you for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want this to be a political blog. There are plenty of other sites for that. But we now face a national crisis of such serious proportions that it dwarfs other issues, such as global warming, health care, and middle-east peace. It now threatens the very fabric of our society, and directly affects every citizen. <strong>And I can remain silent no longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still September, and every store near me ALREADY HAS THEIR CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS UP!<\/p>\n<p>I have nothing against the holidays, Mr. President. Peace on Earth and all that stuff. But moving them up as if they were being held in another time-zone or alternate universe is getting out-of-hand. As far as I know, Christmas hasn&#8217;t budged in my lifetime. And treating every day like it was Christmas (like the stores seem to want me to do) is not helping.<\/p>\n<p>The well-respected Nick documentary program, The Fairly Oddparents, has carefully researched what would happen if Christmas were held every day (Episode 107, air date 12-12-01 <em>I have kids, OKAY!<\/em>). Their conclusion? It would be <strong>catastrophic<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drgrumpyinthehouse.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/dear-president-obama.html\">More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a neurologist&#8217;s blog: Dear President Obama, I&#8217;m writing to you for the first time. I don&#8217;t want this to be a political blog. There are plenty of other sites for that. But we now face a national crisis of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8783\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}