{"id":5618,"date":"2017-05-25T00:35:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T01:37:34","slug":"the-week-may-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=5618","title":{"rendered":"The Week (May 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow much of a problem is it that the president of the United States, the most powerful person on Earth, is a blithering idiot?\u201d Depends what kind of blithering idiot. \u201cRaw intellect doesn&#8217;t translate to presidential success, and its absence could, in the right circumstance, be compensated for.\u201d But \u201cPresident Trump&#8217;s particular brand of stupidity\u201d is very dangerous. \u201cYou can be dumb but modest, or dumb but thoughtful, or dumb but careful. Trump is none of those things. He&#8217;s boastful, impulsive, and careless, all while continuing to blaze new trails of thickheadedness, while the rest of us are left to stand back and gawp in amazement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow much of a problem is it that the president of the United States, the most powerful person on Earth, is a blithering idiot?\u201d Depends what kind of blithering idiot. \u201cRaw intellect doesn&#8217;t translate to presidential success, and its absence could, in the right circumstance, be compensated for.\u201d But \u201cPresident Trump&#8217;s particular brand of stupidity\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6863,6864,1821,1680,6860,6844,6861,5638,761,4957,6862,2074,6865,8],"class_list":["post-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-boastful","tag-careless","tag-dangerous","tag-dumb","tag-idiot","tag-impulsive","tag-intellect","tag-powerful","tag-president","tag-problem","tag-stupidity","tag-success","tag-thickheaded","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5620,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}