{"id":375,"date":"2017-05-27T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2017-05-27T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:11:45","slug":"this-is-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"This is America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a Guardian article about the fracas in MT between the Republican candidate and the journalist, and once again come across the handwringing and the line &#8220;This is not America&#8221;. I&#8217;m getting tired of this. This is America. This is not a small, aberant, shameful minority. This is a large group of loud, foul mouthed, bullying, ignorant people who have been empowered to express clearly who they are and what they think, and they don&#8217;t express themselves by writing op-eds in the paper. They yell, and they beat you up if they think you&#8217;re weak. This is the country we live in, these are the people we live with. Pretending that they&#8217;re unrepresentative is wishful thinking. Trump won half the damn country, people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/may\/27\/greg-gianforte-ben-jacobs-media-donald-trump-journalism-montana#\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/may\/27\/greg-gianforte-ben-jacobs-media-donald-trump-journalism-montana<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a Guardian article about the fracas in MT between the Republican candidate and the journalist, and once again come across the handwringing and the line &#8220;This is not America&#8221;. I&#8217;m getting tired of this. This is America. This is not a small, aberant, shameful minority. This is a large group of loud, foul mouthed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}