{"id":16008,"date":"2017-10-04T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=16008"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:03:52","slug":"the-not-so-quicker-picker-upper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2017\/10\/the-not-so-quicker-picker-upper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Not-So-Quicker Picker-Upper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-threw-paper-towels.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30614 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-threw-paper-towels.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-threw-paper-towels.png 1000w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-threw-paper-towels-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-threw-paper-towels-640x480.png 640w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-threw-paper-towels-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"KonaFilter image-container display-table image on-image\" data-post-image=\"\"><span class=\"caption-source\">I yearn for the days when my blog may once again turn its attention to something other than the disaster that is Donald Trump.\u00a0 I cannot begin to tell you how ashamed I am that this man, the leader of my government, presumes to speak for me.\u00a0 His words and actions embarrass me to the marrow.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trope &#8220;Ugly American&#8221; originally described those Americans who traveled overseas and imposed their arrogant expectations of service, privilege and\u00a0<span data-dobid=\"hdw\">obeisance upon<\/span> the peoples and places they visited.\u00a0 Trump has managed to bring the Ugly American home, modelling for us how Americans can be ugly to each other.\u00a0 This he has nailed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"KonaFilter image-container display-table image on-image\" data-post-image=\"\"><span class=\"caption-source\">Photo Credit: <span class=\"source\">AP\/Evan Vucci<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I yearn for the days when my blog may once again turn its attention to something other than the disaster that is Donald Trump.\u00a0 I cannot begin to tell you how ashamed I am that this man, the leader of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2017\/10\/the-not-so-quicker-picker-upper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-putts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16008"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30615,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008\/revisions\/30615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}