{"id":2261,"date":"2019-09-26T15:07:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2019-09-26T15:09:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:09:41","slug":"listening-to-the-tree-in-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2019\/09\/26\/listening-to-the-tree-in-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to the tree in the forest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Republicans on the House committee seem to be trying a variant of the &#8220;tree in the forest&#8221; defense. If the President commits a crime, but Barr says the behavior is protected by executive privilege it didn&#8217;t happen. Translated using the philosopher&#8217;s question &#8211; if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, it not only makes no sound, there was no tree. I agree, it never made any sense to me either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans on the House committee seem to be trying a variant of the &#8220;tree in the forest&#8221; defense. If the President commits a crime, but Barr says the behavior is protected by executive privilege it didn&#8217;t happen. Translated using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2019\/09\/26\/listening-to-the-tree-in-the-forest\/\">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-2261","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\/2261","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=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}