{"id":13039,"date":"2016-07-04T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=13039"},"modified":"2016-07-04T09:05:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T15:05:54","slug":"in-butte-a-small-victory-over-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/07\/in-butte-a-small-victory-over-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"In Butte, a small victory over bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13040\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 139px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-13040 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robert-Kirby.png\" alt=\"Kirby\" width=\"139\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Kirby<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On this Fourth of July, let&#8217;s count our blessings by reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/4063960-155\/kirby-a-trump-supporter-an-el\">a truly funny piece of work\u00a0<\/a>from Robert Kirby, a columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>One blessing is freedom of speech, which gave a couple of out-of-staters staying in a Butte hotel the right to display their monumental jackassery, to demonstrate the essence of what it is to be a supporter of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>That same freedom allowed our columnist, who &#8220;sensed an opportunity to make things worse,&#8221; to directly confront the Trumpsters and expose them for the mindless bigots they were.<\/p>\n<p>There is also freedom of the press, which allowed the Tribune to publish Kirby&#8217;s column.<\/p>\n<p>And now we all have the freedom to laugh (this right has more to do with the Declaration of Independence than the Constitution, but hey, it&#8217;s the Fourth of July) at Kirby&#8217;s brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>Happy holiday!<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Fourth of July, let&#8217;s count our blessings by reading a truly funny piece of work\u00a0from Robert Kirby, a columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune. One blessing is freedom of speech, which gave a couple of out-of-staters staying in a Butte hotel the right to display their monumental jackassery, to demonstrate the essence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[31,2853,4634,4635],"class_list":["post-13039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-butte","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-kirby","tag-salt-lake-tribune","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}