{"id":6450,"date":"2016-12-28T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2016-12-28T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T22:43:54","slug":"utter-futility-polite-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=6450","title":{"rendered":"THE UTTER FUTILITY OF BEING POLITE TO DONALD TRUMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"story-intro clearfix\">As &#8220;Hunter&#8221; at Daily Kos writes: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story-intro clearfix\">&#8220;In Trump&#8217;s world you are either currently praising Trump, in which case you are a friend and he has\u00a0 &#8216;great respect&#8217; for you, or you are currently not praising Trump, in which case you are a scheming plotter and a terrible person and Donald Trump is going to have a very public fit at you for days, or weeks, or even months to punish you for saying an unkind word in his general direction even if he himself has spent much of his recent life declaring that you were crooked or a weakling or not even truly an American citizen.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As &#8220;Hunter&#8221; at Daily Kos writes: &#8220;In Trump&#8217;s world you are either currently praising Trump, in which case you are a friend and he has\u00a0 &#8216;great respect&#8217; for you, or you are currently not praising Trump, in which case you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=6450\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}