{"id":2741,"date":"2020-08-18T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/08\/18\/strange-days\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T00:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:54:05","slug":"strange-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/08\/18\/strange-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/17\/politics\/donald-trump-campaign-swing\/index.html\">this kind of rhetoric<\/a> to be so strange. A sitting President claiming the country to be incapable of completing an election that determines the will of the people. He is promoting the logic &#8211; if I win, I deserved to win. If I lose, I have been cheated. Promoting this kind of nonsense is damaging to the core principles on which the country operates and no leader of a democracy should be making such claims as a means of self promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this kind of rhetoric to be so strange. A sitting President claiming the country to be incapable of completing an election that determines the will of the people. He is promoting the logic &#8211; if I win, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/08\/18\/strange-days\/\">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-2741","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\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}