{"id":11459,"date":"2019-12-03T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11459"},"modified":"2019-12-03T10:57:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:57:25","slug":"the-mueller-report-the-comic-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11459","title":{"rendered":"The Mueller Report: The comic book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between William Barr&#8217;s preemptive lies about the content of the Mueller Report, and Americans&#8217; growing disinclination to read anything demanding, few Americans seem aware that it is a settled fact that Donald Trump knew that Russia was meddling in our 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/MRIllustrated.jpg\" width=250 class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\">Apparently, the <i>Washington Post<\/i> thinks that re-publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-mueller-report-illustrated-the-washington-post\/1134743355?ean=9781982149277#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the report as a comic book<\/a> will help to get the message out.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the report is dry reading, an endless recitation of facts that can be difficult to keep straight.  Mueller may be a fine lawyer and dogged investigator, but he is no literary stylist.  I don&#8217;t doubt that the dumbed-down version is more accessible than the original.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; geez.  If Americans aren&#8217;t willing to do the work of reading something so important to the well-being of their own country, I&#8217;m inclined to doubt that an illustrated version can help much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between William Barr&#8217;s preemptive lies about the content of the Mueller Report, and Americans&#8217; growing disinclination to read anything demanding, few Americans seem aware that it is a settled fact that Donald Trump knew that Russia was meddling in our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11459\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11462,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions\/11462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}