{"id":16262,"date":"2017-01-10T20:28:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T03:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16262"},"modified":"2017-01-10T20:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T03:34:28","slug":"tweets-are-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/01\/10\/tweets-are-us\/","title":{"rendered":"tweets are us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thank God for Meryl Streep.\u00c2\u00a0 Because she&#8217;s stopping the coming nuclear war from happening.&#8221;<br \/>\nI think the logic here is that Trump&#8217;s attention wanders to tweeting against the latest Hollywood celebrity commenting against him is stopping him from other acts.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, we get the &#8220;OVER-RATED&#8221; tweet from the president-elect.<\/p>\n<p>The USA Today&#8217;s &#8220;Life&#8221; and entertainment section published a piece, which by listing off the many awards and plaudits Meryl Streep has received.\u00c2\u00a0 To prove that she is not over-rated.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a misunderstand of the word &#8220;over-rated&#8221; &#8212; by definition, she is rated very highly, and you&#8217;re charging that she should not be rated as highly (for whatever reason)&#8230;<br \/>\nFrankly, all it takes to be eligible to be &#8220;over&#8221; or &#8220;under&#8221; rated is to be RATED in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the main problem with Trump&#8217;s tweet (and the problem moving forward) is that it forces one to look at the comment that inspired the tweet in the first place.\u00c2\u00a0 Streep took a cheap shot at football, and mixed martial arts, and has an over-rated view of Hollywood&#8230; which, last I checked, is about to throw out a whole bunch of new sequels to action blockbusters this year.<\/p>\n<p>There are no heroes in this stupid twit and tweet game.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if, surely, Trump is the greater villain.\u00c2\u00a0 (Due to the role being played here.\u00c2\u00a0 Gad, I must have missed the George W Bush repose to Michael Moore&#8217;s Oscar comments.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thank God for Meryl Streep.\u00c2\u00a0 Because she&#8217;s stopping the coming nuclear war from happening.&#8221; I think the logic here is that Trump&#8217;s attention wanders to tweeting against the latest Hollywood celebrity commenting against him is stopping him from other acts. Sure enough, we get the &#8220;OVER-RATED&#8221; tweet from the president-elect. The USA Today&#8217;s &#8220;Life&#8221; and [&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-16262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262","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=16262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16266,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262\/revisions\/16266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}