{"id":12481,"date":"2020-08-05T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12481"},"modified":"2020-08-05T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:56:17","slug":"pandemic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12481","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chart below, from <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2020\/08\/coronavirus-growth-in-western-countries-august-4-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mother Jones<\/a><\/i>, tells you everything you need to know about Donald Trump and America&#8217;s management of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/blog_covid19_country_comparison_august_04_deaths.gif\" width=600><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to know, I guess, that we&#8217;re doing better than Argentina, and possibly Mexico, but it certainly puts an unhappy spin on the notion of American exceptionalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chart below, from Mother Jones, tells you everything you need to know about Donald Trump and America&#8217;s management of the coronavirus pandemic. It&#8217;s nice to know, I guess, that we&#8217;re doing better than Argentina, and possibly Mexico, but it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12481\">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\/12481"}],"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=12481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12485,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12481\/revisions\/12485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}