{"id":11918,"date":"2016-11-09T00:52:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T08:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11918"},"modified":"2016-11-09T00:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T08:51:53","slug":"media-declares-trump-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11918","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA DECLARES TRUMP PRESIDENT-ELECT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I leave this here, largely, without comment tonight, because I suspect some of you may wish to vent in comments below. Please feel free.<\/p>\n

I suspect I’ll have much to say in the near future — and for years to come, unfortunately — as light begins to emerge from this darkness. For now, I’ll just say that I have done my absolute best to warn that this day could very well be coming. I’ve tried to make that clear, as loudly as I could, day in and day out, five days a week on The BradCast<\/i><\/a> since the day Trump first descended that escalator on June 16, 2015, and throughout all of the days and months when damned near everyone saw him as a joke, thought this could never happen, and continued to think that…right up until tonight.<\/p>\n

Now, it appears to have happened.<\/p>\n

I wish I could have done more. I don’t know how. But I’ll keep working on it.<\/p>\n

We are all<\/i> much greater than this. But we survived eight years of George W. Bush. Most of us. We will survive this. Together. Because we must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I leave this here, largely, without comment tonight, because I suspect some of you may wish to vent in comments below. Please feel free. I suspect I’ll have much to say in the near future — and for years to come, unfortunately — as light begins to emerge from this darkness. For now, I’ll just […]<\/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":[479,594],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918","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=11918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11918"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}