{"id":1356,"date":"2016-10-12T20:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2016-10-12T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:04:09","slug":"make-american-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2016\/10\/12\/make-american-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Make American great again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mantra &#8220;Make America great again&#8221; has been used by Mr Trump in this election season to summarize what the candidate suggests he can change about the United States. I disagree with Mr Trump on so many things and also reject his candidacy based on what he has demonstrated to be his personal values.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel it is necessary to make America great again, allow me to offer a very different vision starting from a similar place. &#8220;That used to be us&#8221; is a book by Thomas Freidman and Michael Mandelbaum (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/That_Used_to_Be_Us\">see the <\/a>wikipedia\u00a0summary). While Trump\u00a0and Friedman are both concerned. they have very different perspectives on globalization, diversity, education and energy. I have read most of the Friedman books and his analysis and explanations are deep and nuanced. You get a very complete picture without the vagueness I find in the Trump rhetoric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mantra &#8220;Make America great again&#8221; has been used by Mr Trump in this election season to summarize what the candidate suggests he can change about the United States. I disagree with Mr Trump on so many things and also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2016\/10\/12\/make-american-great-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}