{"id":17699,"date":"2018-05-30T17:41:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T17:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=17699"},"modified":"2018-05-30T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T17:41:56","slug":"postcard-from-the-swamp-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/postcard-from-the-swamp-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Swamp #40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will not insult your intelligence by saying that we are doing fine. I do not think you would disagree, but there are so many things that appear to be simple on which we can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even due justice to the current news cycle, much less haul the main brace of what might be objective truth out of the much. <\/p>\n<p>Roseanne and her appalling Ambien-fueled Tweet about Valerie Jarret, the North Korea secret police chief&#8217;s arrival in New York to talk some nuclear turkey, all the rest of the crazed swirl of politico-military shenanigans have left me with the vapors.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this will work itself out. Some won&#8217;t. I guess we will see&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>-Vic<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2405.png\" alt=\"IMG_2405\" width=\"673\" height=\"504\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2405.png 673w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2405-600x449.png 600w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2405-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2405-375x281.png 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2018 Vic Socotra<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will not insult your intelligence by saying that we are doing fine. I do not think you would disagree, but there are so many things that appear to be simple on which we can&#8217;t. I can&#8217;t even due justice to the current news cycle, much less haul the main brace of what might be [&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-17699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699","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=17699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17703,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699\/revisions\/17703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}