{"id":16677,"date":"2017-07-26T19:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16677"},"modified":"2017-07-26T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T02:49:38","slug":"the-insult-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/07\/26\/the-insult-and-all\/","title":{"rendered":"the insult, and all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think you can dismiss the Trump insult, obscure as it is, of Elizabeth Warren to Pocahontas too easily.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2017\/06\/27\/time-for-trump-find-different-nickname-for-elizabeth-warren\/U4wCZSDcSMJUqu5ZUAOPjL\/story.html\">Or as easily as done here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a little pointless, and the name game attached to the &#8220;issue&#8221; is Trumpian bluster.\u00c2\u00a0 Surreally, the last time Trump tossed it out, he did so in a very meta-manner as in &#8220;Here&#8217;s I thing I do!&#8221;, which if he were to follow up on his twitter page &#8212; might show a kind of evolution to keep the stale fresh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2017\/07\/self-described-real-indian-offers-challenge-to-warren.html\">And I half suspect a troll here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Like, he was invited by Republican big-wigs to keep the issue out there circulating.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, maybe is like that gay Republican Presidential candidate who was running to tweak the Mormon church, ala Mitt Romney?<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s this thing where I&#8217;m thinking about this controversy &#8212; a man &#8212; Michael Derrick Hudson &#8212; adopted the nom de plume Yi-Fen Chou to have a better chance of getting into Sherman Alexei&#8217;s edited poetry collection.\u00c2\u00a0 My thought is simply that I hope the cost &#8212; that the public that detests this the most and thinks of it the worst &#8212; was worth it to Hudson; being he was already published it probably wasn&#8217;t.\u00c2\u00a0 But I can&#8217;t help but ponder this in relation to Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s quick insertion once upon a time as an Indian.\u00c2\u00a0 If she is planning on running for President, it will float out there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think you can dismiss the Trump insult, obscure as it is, of Elizabeth Warren to Pocahontas too easily.\u00c2\u00a0 Or as easily as done here.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a little pointless, and the name game attached to the &#8220;issue&#8221; is Trumpian bluster.\u00c2\u00a0 Surreally, the last time Trump tossed it out, he did so in a [&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-16677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16677","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=16677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16678,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16677\/revisions\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}