{"id":27501,"date":"2020-01-30T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27501"},"modified":"2020-01-30T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:07:20","slug":"schadenfreude-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/30\/schadenfreude-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Arts Editor points me at a poignant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/29\/politics\/us-border-wall-falls-over-high-winds\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news item<\/a> on <em><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Newly installed panels from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/05\/politics\/donald-trump-border-visit-calexico\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0the US border wall fell over<\/a>\u00a0in high winds Wednesday, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border.<\/p>\n<p>The area is part of an ongoing construction project to improve existing sections of the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Agent Carlos Pitones of the Customs and Border Protection sector in El Centro, California, told CNN that the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured, according to Pitones, and the wall panels were unable to withstand the windy conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service reports that winds in the area gusted as high as 37 mph Wednesday.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kyma.com\/news\/2020\/01\/29\/portion-of-new-border-wall-falls-in-mexicali\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video from CNN affiliate KYMA<\/a>\u00a0shows the metal panels leaning against trees adjacent to a Mexicali, Mexico, street as the wind whips up dirt from the construction site on the other side of the border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s wall fell over? Awwwwwww, and Mexico didn&#8217;t even pay for it! Or will Trump disown it because it&#8217;s not brand new?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Arts Editor points me at a poignant news item on CNN: Newly installed panels from\u00a0the US border wall fell over\u00a0in high winds Wednesday, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border. The area is part of an ongoing construction project to improve existing sections of the wall. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/30\/schadenfreude-6\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-27501","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\/27501","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=27501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27502,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27501\/revisions\/27502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}