The political landscape is a cratered wasteland, with trenches dug so deep that they come close to the Earth’s molten core. \u00a0People are polarized, drawn to their respective camps out of mutual hatred for the opposition’s candidate. \u00a0The stink of fear and hyperbole\u00a0dominate the air, overwhelming the usual scent of pumpkin spice that is common this time of year.<\/p>\n
I’m trying to avoid adding my own voice to the tumult. \u00a0I’ve already made a couple of politically themed posts. \u00a0They’re decent posts, but I don’t think they changed anyone’s mind. \u00a0Most of the people that read my blog posts already share my perspective.<\/p>\n
I like to use this\u00a0blog as a writing warm up. \u00a0It loosens up my mind and my fingers and gets the words flowing. \u00a0The problem is that I’ve been watching the election so closely that all that ever comes to mind are politically themed posts. \u00a0For example, I’m tempted\u00a0to talk about the debate right now<\/em>. \u00a0I also feel an urge to talk about the false equivalence that is applied to Hillary and Donald in regards to their honesty. \u00a0The temptation is strong, when what I really should be doing is focusing on writing fiction. \u00a0My writing career isn’t going to go anywhere if I remain fixated on politics.<\/p>\n For over a month, I’ve been avoiding this blog the same way that I’ve been avoiding Facebook. \u00a0I’m going to continue to remain vacant from social media the same way those that\u00a0govern avoid war zones. \u00a0However, October is coming. \u00a0My hope and dream is to turn October into Blog-tober again, which leads into NaNoWriMo. \u00a0If I can write a blog post every day for 31 days, I can probably write 1,700 words every day in November. \u00a0And I’ve got a really great idea for a NaNoWriMo story this year.<\/p>\n So, I guess this is a\u00a0warning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The political landscape is a cratered wasteland, with trenches dug so deep that they come close to the Earth’s molten core. \u00a0People are polarized, drawn to their respective camps out of mutual hatred for the opposition’s candidate. \u00a0The stink of fear and hyperbole\u00a0dominate the air, overwhelming the usual scent of pumpkin spice that is common […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}