{"id":6957,"date":"2017-10-26T12:44:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:45:38","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6957","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ed Gillespie will turn the really bad Virginia economy #&#39;s around, and fast. Strong on crime, he might even save our great statues\/heritage!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/923551572218572802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The heritage that Trump is bragging-up is that Richmond, Virginia was the capital of the Confederacy.  Richmond is proud of that, too; just take a ride down Monument Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/JEBStuart.jpg\" width=600><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve discussed the monument flap in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1484\" target=\"_blank\">the past<\/a>; I feel squeamish about whitewashing history and removing the statues, but also that celebrating the Confederacy requires a misshapen character.  The statues should be turned into the centerpieces of, basically, open-air museum exhibits rebuking that shameful history.<\/p>\n<p>But nobody should feel any confusion on this point: Trump is dog-whistling the human sewage who resent that regular white folk can no longer own a couple of slaves (preferably breeding stock), and all he deserves is loathing and contempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Gillespie will turn the really bad Virginia economy #&#39;s around, and fast. Strong on crime, he might even save our great statues\/heritage! &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 26, 2017 The heritage that Trump is bragging-up is that Richmond, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6957\">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\/6957"}],"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=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6961,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions\/6961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}