{"id":1756,"date":"2016-12-06T21:20:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T04:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2016-12-06T21:20:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T04:20:57","slug":"bookworm-beat-12616-the-theres-nothing-usual-about-politics-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"Bookworm Beat 12\/6\/16 &#8212; the &#8220;there&#8217;s nothing usual about politics&#8221; edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2016\/12\/06\/bookworm-beat-12616-nothing-usual-about-politics-edition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/cornwallis-surrenders-at-yorktown.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>And for the people in the media who don\u2019t understand the Constitution (that would be almost everyone), let me explain: As long as Trump doesn\u2019t pass laws shutting down the media, or engage in acts that deprive reporters of their civil rights, there\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong with him treating the American media with the contempt it deserves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2016\/12\/06\/bookworm-beat-12616-nothing-usual-about-politics-edition\/\">Bookworm Beat 12\/6\/16 &#8212; the &#8220;there&#8217;s nothing usual about politics&#8221; edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius:2px;text-indent:20px;width:auto;padding:0 4px 0 0;text-align:center;font:bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#ffffff;background:#bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;position:absolute;opacity:1;z-index:8675309;display:none;cursor:pointer;top:69px;left:20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And for the people in the media who don\u2019t understand the Constitution (that would be almost everyone), let me explain: As long as Trump doesn\u2019t pass laws shutting down the media, or engage in acts that deprive reporters of their civil rights, there\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong with him treating the American media with the contempt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=1756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bookworm Beat 12\/6\/16 &#8212; the &#8220;there&#8217;s nothing usual about politics&#8221; edition<\/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":[13,47,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-gop-trump","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}