{"id":11750,"date":"2020-02-12T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11750"},"modified":"2020-02-12T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:26:29","slug":"am-i-the-only-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11750","title":{"rendered":"Am I the only person &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; reminded of the famous prom scene in <i>Carrie<\/i> when reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-vindman.html?action=click&#038;module=Top%20Stories&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news stories<\/a> like this?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As far as President Trump is concerned, banishing Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman from the White House and exiling him back to the Pentagon was not enough. If he had his way, the commander in chief made clear on Tuesday, the Defense Department would now take action against the colonel, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s going to be up to the military,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters who asked whether Colonel Vindman should face disciplinary action after testifying in the House hearings that led to the president\u2019s impeachment. \u201cBut if you look at what happened,\u201d Mr. Trump added in threatening terms, \u201cI mean they\u2019re going to, certainly, I would imagine, take a look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is an unsettled time in Mr. Trump\u2019s Washington. In the days since he was acquitted in a Senate trial, an aggrieved and unbound president has sought to even the scales as he sees it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only person reminded of the famous prom scene in Carrie when reading news stories like this? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11750\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750"}],"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=11750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11751,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750\/revisions\/11751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}