{"id":17799,"date":"2018-07-18T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=17799"},"modified":"2023-04-03T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T21:19:59","slug":"would-and-wouldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/07\/would-and-wouldnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Would and Wouldn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think that the person who wrote this piece featuring Grover <\/a>for Jimmy Kimmel’s show deserves a raise, if not an Emmy.\u00a0 I’m glad to share it.\u00a0 (I’ll wait while you watch.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

As to Trump’s incomprehensible mention of double-negatives, the double-negative we are most familiar with is Trump himself.\u00a0 Again, elections matter.\u00a0 Don’t sit on your hands or in front of your screens, thinking that nothing will change no matter what you do.\u00a0 Rather, act to preserve your future, because you are in the best position to do so and you have the most at stake.\u00a0 Open your eyes and vote accordingly this fall and every election.<\/p>\n

I spent over an hour today listening to Barack Obama deliver the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture<\/a> in Johannesburg, South Africa.\u00a0 I cannot tell you how refreshing it was, hearing an American voice of reason and hope and cooperation, a leader who expressed our best ideals rather than appealing to our worst natures.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t you like a return to reason?\u00a0 Wouldn’t you like a return to sanity?\u00a0 I would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think that the person who wrote this piece featuring Grover for Jimmy Kimmel’s show deserves a raise, if not an Emmy.\u00a0 I’m glad to share it.\u00a0 (I’ll wait while you watch.)\u00a0 As to Trump’s incomprehensible mention of double-negatives, the … Continue reading →<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17799","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=17799"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29663,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17799\/revisions\/29663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}