{"id":11269,"date":"2015-07-15T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T00:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11269"},"modified":"2015-07-15T17:39:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T00:39:51","slug":"iran-trump-rising-and-a-confederate-monument-worth-keeping-bradcast-7152015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11269","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Trump Rising and a Confederate Monument Worth Keeping?: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 7\/15\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Obama_Trump_StoneMountain_071515.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Obama responds to critics of the Iran deal &#8212; legitimate ones and Republicans. (I&#8217;m glad the grownup is driving.)<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Trump continues to rise &#8212; and for good reason. (Should we endorse him?)<\/p>\n<p>&bull; NAACP wants to sandblast a huge monument to the Confederacy &#8212; which feels a bit too Taliban-y for my tastes. (But am I wrong?)<\/p>\n<p>&bull; All of that and more today, including: Listener calls on all of the above; I wrestle with technical probs; and Desi Doyen joins us for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>!  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(I&#8217;m glad the grownup is driving.) &bull; Trump continues to rise &#8212; and for good reason. (Should we endorse him?) &bull; NAACP wants to sandblast a huge monument to the Confederacy &#8212; which feels a bit too Taliban-y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,89,675,543,479,594,28,200,701,134,566,477,43,300,523],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-reform","category-environment","category-exxon-mobil","category-iran","category-jeb-bush","category-kpfk","category-north-carolina","category-republicans","category-scott-walker","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11269"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}