{"id":9508,"date":"2019-01-06T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2019-01-06T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T19:10:12","slug":"depressing-tweet-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9508","title":{"rendered":"Depressing tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iSFAokoIP7\">pic.twitter.com\/iSFAokoIP7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1081735898679701505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Unavoidably, one speculates: Is this how Trumps sees himself?  A heroic figure in an action movie, or something similar?  Is this how the nitwits who are his base see Trump?<\/p>\n<p>I can recall my son bursting into tears while watching a cartoon show on television, and explaining to him that it wasn&#8217;t real.  Now, it occurs to me that a stunning number of Americans must never have got that talk, that they are unable to make the necessary distinction between television dramas with their simplistic good guy \/ bad guy plotlines, and the messy uncertainties of the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pic.twitter.com\/iSFAokoIP7 &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019 Unavoidably, one speculates: Is this how Trumps sees himself? A heroic figure in an action movie, or something similar? Is this how the nitwits who are his base see Trump? I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9508\">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\/9508"}],"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=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9510,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions\/9510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}