{"id":4561,"date":"2016-08-12T15:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:31:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:31:51","slug":"petulance-of-the-day-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/12\/petulance-of-the-day-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Petulance of the Day, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

This reader suggests I might need the help of some demi-god<\/em> to keep up this series<\/a>:<\/p>\n

You’ll need to get more server space if you do “Petulance of the day” for the next 3 months.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another reader has a deeper analysis:<\/p>\n

I think I’m starting to understand Trump’s ongoing outrageousness:<\/p>\n

If (when) he loses the election, he plans to say that he was just pranking America. “Of course I was kidding,” he’ll say. “I never wanted the job. I just wanted to see how many idiotic, horrible things I could say before people caught on, but they never did. It was the ultimate reality show, and the American voters are a bunch of losers!”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I’m completely serious. It’s a way for him to save face when Hillary shellacks him in November. Plus, we all know how much he loves to joke around.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I almost buy it until I think about the audience to whom he’s playing – they’re not likely to take his jest lightly. I hate to think this of fellow Americans, but they might try to hunt him down for playing with their affections in such a slapdash manner. Is he too egotistical to realize this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This reader suggests I might need the help of some demi-god to keep up this series: You’ll need to get more server space if you do “Petulance of the day” for the next 3 months. Another reader has a deeper analysis: I think I’m starting to understand Trump’s ongoing outrageousness: \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-4561","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\/4561","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=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4562,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/4562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}