{"id":932,"date":"2016-06-02T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2016-06-02T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:17:06","slug":"how-i-acted-like-a-pundit-and-screwed-up-on-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-i-acted-like-a-pundit-and-screwed-up-on-donald-trump\/?ex_cid=538twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/apologia_4x3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since Donald Trump effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination this month, I\u2019ve seen a lot of critical self-assessments from empirically minded journalists \u2014 FiveThirtyEight included, tw\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I read this and couldn&#8217;t help thinking of the rise of the Mule in Isaac Asimov&#8217;s book &#8216;Foundation and Empire&#8217;. The Mule wasn&#8217;t predicted by Hari Seldon in the book and the pundits and pollsters didn&#8217;t predict Trump. Panic ensued in the book and now in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-i-acted-like-a-pundit-and-screwed-up-on-donald-trump\/\">How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since Donald Trump effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination this month, I\u2019ve seen a lot of critical self-assessments from empirically minded journalists \u2014 FiveThirtyEight included, tw\u2026&#8221; I read this and couldn&#8217;t help thinking of the rise of the Mule in Isaac Asimov&#8217;s book &#8216;Foundation and Empire&#8217;. The Mule wasn&#8217;t predicted by Hari Seldon in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump<\/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":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}