{"id":15164,"date":"2016-01-07T17:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15164"},"modified":"2016-01-07T17:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:55:06","slug":"a-pivotal-moment-in-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/01\/07\/a-pivotal-moment-in-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"a pivotal moment in American history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 8.\u00c2\u00a0 And Presidential Elect Donald Trump walks up to the podium and stadium full of the excited cheerful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have an announcement to make.\u00c2\u00a0 This was all supposed to be a joke.\u00c2\u00a0 I have billions of dollars, and decided what the hell, I&#8217;ll spend it on on one giant joke &#8212; see how far this one goes.\u00c2\u00a0 Frankly I thought I&#8217;d peter out somewhere around November of last year.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, did you hear some of the bullshit I was saying then?\u00c2\u00a0 It was a challenge to just keep upping the ante, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>God, I thought the final straw would be my vice presidential pick.\u00c2\u00a0 Ammon Bundy?\u00c2\u00a0 Really, could I have picked someone more wack-a-doodle from this weird right wing fan base I&#8217;ve courted?<\/p>\n<p>Well.\u00c2\u00a0 Here I am.\u00c2\u00a0 President Elect.\u00c2\u00a0 Geez, now what, America?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll get to work&#8230; Make America Great Again and all that bullshit.\u00c2\u00a0 Go back over effectively my acting performances from my reality tv series&#8230; sure, sure&#8230; &#8216;You&#8217;re Fired&#8217; &#8212; that&#8217;s all I have to do to handle Kim Jong-un&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 8.\u00c2\u00a0 And Presidential Elect Donald Trump walks up to the podium and stadium full of the excited cheerful. &#8220;I have an announcement to make.\u00c2\u00a0 This was all supposed to be a joke.\u00c2\u00a0 I have billions of dollars, and decided what the hell, I&#8217;ll spend it on on one giant joke &#8212; see how far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15166,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions\/15166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}