{"id":10,"date":"2017-02-03T05:45:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.johnpbaldwinjr.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/03\/working-together-the-smart-way\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T05:45:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:45:06","slug":"working-together-the-smart-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/03\/working-together-the-smart-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Working together, the smart way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/317514-gop-rep-pulls-bill-to-sell-federal-land\">bill to sell off acres of federal land was pulled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article in The Hill, this effort was opposed by &#8220;conservation and sportsmen&#8217;s groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s two important things to note about this success.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The bill was opposed by groups that don&#8217;t always see eye to eye. While &#8220;just getting along&#8221; in this era of Trumpism is a bogus strategy, it&#8217;s also smart to find temporary allies. Don&#8217;t reserve alliances only for those who align very closely with you. Where there&#8217;s common ground, leverage it.<\/li>\n<li>The article makes it seem that the driving force behind getting this bill pulled was the efforts of a group that Trump himself is a member of.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This battle against seeming insanity need not force us to behave in shameful ways, descending to the level of those we oppose. But it will require we fight smart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to sell off acres of federal land was pulled. According to the article in The Hill, this effort was opposed by &#8220;conservation and sportsmen&#8217;s groups.&#8221; I think there&#8217;s two important things to note about this success. The bill was opposed by groups that don&#8217;t always see eye to eye. While &#8220;just getting along&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/03\/working-together-the-smart-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Working together, the smart way<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}