{"id":15507,"date":"2018-04-28T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T20:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15507"},"modified":"2018-04-28T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T20:31:19","slug":"maybe-its-a-nervous-tic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/28\/maybe-its-a-nervous-tic\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe It&#8217;s A Nervous Tic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I must admit to a growing irritation with imputations of requirements to the wrong entity. For instance, this White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/president-donald-j-trumps-summit-meeting-prime-minister-shinzo-abe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> on the recent meeting between President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Abe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They also reaffirmed that North Korea needs to abandon all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I realize it&#8217;s possible to suggest there&#8217;s an unwritten addition to the sentence, <em>in order to gain our approval and buy-in to the agreement<\/em>. But I remain irritated, as such assumptions are at least open, if not prone, to error. I&#8217;d much rather see a direct declarative:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The President and the Prime Minister require North Korea\u00a0abandon all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs before we can be signatories to any agreement concerning the Korean Peninsula.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It properly denotes who&#8217;s driving this requirement and, stylistically, is simply superior.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe I&#8217;m just crabby.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/header-green-crabs2.jpg?resize=800%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I must admit to a growing irritation with imputations of requirements to the wrong entity. For instance, this White House press release on the recent meeting between President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Abe: They also reaffirmed that North Korea needs to abandon all weapons of mass destruction and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/28\/maybe-its-a-nervous-tic\/\"> 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-15507","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\/15507","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=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15508,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions\/15508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}