{"id":18928,"date":"2017-01-10T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18928"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:30:50","slug":"18928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18928","title":{"rendered":"Disgrace under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does Trump lie to America or only to himself?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GOODHQ\/videos\/10154232142278059\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GOODHQ\/videos\/10154232142278059\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Buddy sent me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2017\/01\/why-america-hates-hollywood-or-should.php\">Powerline&#8217;s Blog<\/a> which faulted Meryl Streep and Hollywood for honoring the movie Director Roman Polanski who escaped the US after raping a thirteen year old girl. Its an interesting point and those who try to gloss it over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/meryl-streep-applaud-roman-polanski\/\">shouldn&#8217;t escape criticism<\/a>. But let&#8217;s not mince words. That doesn&#8217;t excuse Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I can escape the label &#8220;hypocrite&#8221; on this one. I haven&#8217;t forgotten what a dastardly thing Polanski did.  I even referred to him once <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18037\">on this blog<\/a> by way of condemnation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI\u2019m sorry to say that the principle writer\/director\/actor of the movie has a Woody Allen-Roman Polanski-Bill Cosby type past. I doubt that his riposte to Griffith will leave anything like the original Birth of a Nation\u2019s mark on the world. I can only hope that it doesn\u2019t inspire legions of black audience members to immitate the white audiences who watched its namesake \u2013 forget the Ku Klux Klan\u2019s sordid reputation, give it a rebirth and spread it to the North<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Trump lie to America or only to himself? https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GOODHQ\/videos\/10154232142278059\/ My Buddy sent me a link to Powerline&#8217;s Blog which faulted Meryl Streep and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18928"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18936,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions\/18936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}