{"id":13668,"date":"2024-10-29T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2024-10-29T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:01:40","slug":"the-coarsening-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13668","title":{"rendered":"The coarsening of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/10\/29\/the-coarsening-of-america\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/10\/29\/the-coarsening-of-america\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or do words not matter? We were going to tip toe past a certain former President\u2019s rally at Madison Square Garden instead of wallowing in the mire. Honest!\u00a0 This blog delights in the bon mot, the well aimed jest, humor that is irreverent \u2014 even scabrous. But not even sycophants like Sean Trumpitty are laughing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/10\/29\/the-coarsening-of-america\/ Or do words not matter? We were going to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13669,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions\/13669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}