{"id":17557,"date":"2018-03-21T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=17557"},"modified":"2018-03-22T16:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:31:46","slug":"postcard-from-the-swamp-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/postcard-from-the-swamp-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard From The Swamp #35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, they certainly call it March Madness for a reason. My brackets are busted, the biggest snowstorm of the winter in DC happening in Spring. You know, the usual.<\/p>\n<p>I am slightly agog at what is happening now- anything from proxy wars against Russia in Syria, three-party Korean talks, the leadership of DoJ, CIA and the FBI embroiled in perjury charges- but we should be getting used to it by now.<\/p>\n<p>My personal sense of amazement must have gotten slightly number over time. But I defy any rational citizens to look at what has transpired since the Las Vegas shooting- still unexplained- and all the subsequent unexplained acts of rage by young males- tell me that any of this makes any coherent sense. I mean, like seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vic<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2355-e1521736289981.png\" alt=\"IMG_2355\" width=\"600\" height=\"458\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, they certainly call it March Madness for a reason. My brackets are busted, the biggest snowstorm of the winter in DC happening in Spring. You know, the usual. I am slightly agog at what is happening now- anything from proxy wars against Russia in Syria, three-party Korean talks, the leadership of DoJ, CIA and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17563,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557\/revisions\/17563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}