{"id":1229,"date":"2016-07-22T08:11:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T04:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:11:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T04:11:21","slug":"further-musings-on-our-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Further musings on our next president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Donald Trump last night I thought to myself,\u00a0<em>This guy&#8217;s actually\u00a0<\/em>not<em> such a great orator&#8230; why am I voting for him?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered: I&#8217;m not voting for Orator of the United States; I&#8217;m voting for President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Lofty rhetoric and platitudes just aren&#8217;t his style and I&#8217;m okay with that. Neither one of us got time for it. There are enough rhetoricians out there masquerading as politicians. Give me a real businessman and manager for a change and I&#8217;ll be happy.<\/p>\n<p>And I think I&#8217;m going to be happy come January 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Donald Trump last night I thought to myself,\u00a0This guy&#8217;s actually\u00a0not such a great orator&#8230; why am I voting for him? Then I remembered: I&#8217;m not voting for Orator of the United States; I&#8217;m voting for President of the United &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}