{"id":11966,"date":"2017-09-27T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T00:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11966"},"modified":"2017-09-27T19:39:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T00:39:49","slug":"dont-go-to-puerto-rico-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/27\/dont-go-to-puerto-rico-mr-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Go To Puerto Rico, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.prcsc.org\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/puerto-rican-flag-san-juan-puerto-rico1.jpg?resize=328%2C246\" width=\"328\" height=\"246\" \/>In the wake of Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/26\/politics\/donald-trump-puerto-rico-visit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> of his plan to visit Puerto Rico, all I can think is how this will delay and perturb the disaster recovery operations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you a pass on going, Mr. Trump. Your time is better spent arranging to send useful resources to that battered island.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps consider making them a State. Now wouldn&#8217;t <em>that<\/em> be an accomplishment? Although it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/06\/11\/532482957\/puerto-rico-votes-on-statehood-though-congress-will-make-final-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not entirely clear<\/a> that a substantial majority of Puerto Ricans actually want the territory to be a State.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, stay away. I shan&#8217;t make fun of you for not going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Trump&#8217;s announcement of his plan to visit Puerto Rico, all I can think is how this will delay and perturb the disaster recovery operations. I&#8217;ll give you a pass on going, Mr. Trump. Your time is better spent arranging to send useful resources to that battered \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/27\/dont-go-to-puerto-rico-mr-president\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11967,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions\/11967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}