{"id":29489,"date":"2020-01-30T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29489"},"modified":"2020-01-30T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:30:18","slug":"today-in-the-reader-david-brooks-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29489","title":{"rendered":"Today in the Reader- David  Brooks is Wrong&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;Will Rogers Had it Right<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d2qru3puhm7uxm.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/image\/article\/019\/419\/19419\/header_custom\/19419_16313_657_Welty_1086.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begins:<\/p>\n<p>Last week I began sleeping well for the first time since Donald Trump became a Presidential contender. The powerful summation by Congressman Schiff, \u201cShifty\u201d to the \u201cLock-her-up-crowd,\u201d comforted me. Then David Brooks the eminently reasonable PBS News Hour pundit wrote off a second Trump victory. Brooks said too many Americans don&#8217;t want a Trump Presidency for four more years, never mind a hot economy.<\/p>\n<p>I know better. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/30\/19419_david_brooks_is_wrong_will_rogers_had_it_right\">http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/30\/19419_david_brooks_is_wrong_will_rogers_had_it_right<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Will Rogers Had it Right It begins: Last week I began sleeping well for the first time since Donald Trump became a Presidential contender&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,31,20,14,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29489"}],"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=29489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29492,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29489\/revisions\/29492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}