{"id":19965,"date":"2020-10-05T05:54:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=19965"},"modified":"2020-10-05T05:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:54:48","slug":"break-the-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2020\/10\/05\/break-the-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Break the narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-will-trumps-positive-covid-19-test-affect-the-election\/\">Is Trump&#8217;s covid-19 case a positive or a negative for his re-election chances<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>A&#8230; Positive&#8230; I guess.  Or. Nothing much.  It splatters some empathy for the guy &#8212; as evidenced by Biden folding his negative ads.<\/p>\n<p>I heard it articulated by a conspiracy-minded talk radio show, but it followed my thought on what this 538 is missing.  You craft the narrative.  &#8220;Hero&#8217;s Journey&#8221;.  THis is the part where the battered  protagonist rejuvenates and or finds wisdom in the cave.<\/p>\n<p>I see a Trump ad at youtube (paid content).  The title refers to Trump as a &#8220;warrior&#8221; the clip simply being his comments on his positive testing.  The idea now is that &#8220;a real warrior is battling within&#8221; &#8212; I believe expressed by the Star Trek Klingon character Worf.<\/p>\n<p>The one problem with this comes in Trump&#8217;s need for surrounding himself with his teeming masses.  So he rides off and waves from a car, disrupting this &#8220;covid 19 quarantine as reset&#8221; narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; Is Trump&#8217;s covid-19 case a positive or a negative for his re-election chances? A&#8230; Positive&#8230; I guess. Or. Nothing much. It splatters some empathy for the guy &#8212; as evidenced by Biden folding his negative ads. I heard it articulated by a conspiracy-minded talk radio show, but it followed my thought on what this [&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-19965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965","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=19965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19966,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions\/19966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}