{"id":6826,"date":"2016-11-25T21:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2016-11-25T21:59:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:59:54","slug":"guarding-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/25\/guarding-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Guarding Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of whether Jill Stein&#8217;s call for a recount in Wisconsin, probably followed by some other close states, is justified or not, the Trump camp is displaying its immaturity WRT the democratic process<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/25\/politics\/green-party-recount-wisconsin\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> in its response<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway tweeted on Thanksgiving that their opponents were being sore losers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look who &#8216;can&#8217;t accept the election results&#8217; Hillary Clinton Supporters Call for Vote Recount in Battleground States,&#8221; Conway wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They should be <em>applauding and encouraging<\/em> the effort in the name of the people. A citizenry uncertain that its voice is being properly heard is a citizenry that may be so dissatisfied that it&#8217;ll rise up and take out those in power. It&#8217;s happened before, after all.<\/p>\n<p>A word to the wise: that would be Trump and the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of whether Jill Stein&#8217;s call for a recount in Wisconsin, probably followed by some other close states, is justified or not, the Trump camp is displaying its immaturity WRT the democratic process in its response: Former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway tweeted on Thanksgiving that their opponents were being \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/25\/guarding-democracy\/\"> 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-6826","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\/6826","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=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}