{"id":17812,"date":"2016-11-05T02:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T02:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17812"},"modified":"2016-11-05T02:46:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T02:46:02","slug":"irony-clouds-melanias-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17812","title":{"rendered":"Irony clouds Melania&#8217;s message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cyberbullying.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17813\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cyberbullying-300x255.png\" alt=\"cyberbullying\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cyberbullying-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cyberbullying-768x652.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cyberbullying.png 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope y&#8217;all are sitting down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to say something positive about Melania Trump, wife of the Republican presidential nominee who &#8212; in my view &#8212; is totally unfit and unqualified to occupy the office he is seeking.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke this week about cyber bullying and said she intends to make that her signature issue if she becomes first lady.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is a noble one. The goal is equally noble. She has articulated a serious problem in contemporary society. Children shouldn&#8217;t be bullied in any context, she said, particularly by faceless and nameless abusers who hide their identity in the vast reaches of cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, though, is the messenger. Melania Trump is married to a serial cyber bully. Donald Trump has used his Twitter account to bully and insult women, Gold Star parents, Muslims, Hispanics, immigrants &#8230; you name &#8217;em, he&#8217;s bullied &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of Melania&#8217;s first lady theme is too obvious to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the issue &#8212; standing alone and separate from the context in which she delivered it &#8212; is a worthy one.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope y&#8217;all are sitting down. I&#8217;m about to say something positive about Melania Trump, wife of the Republican presidential nominee who &#8212; in my view &#8212; is totally unfit and unqualified to occupy the office he is seeking. She spoke this week about cyber bullying and said she intends to make that her signature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17812\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irony clouds Melania&#8217;s message<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[1221,1424,6267,6075,4300],"class_list":["post-17812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-cyber-bullying","tag-donald-trump","tag-gold-star-parents","tag-melania-trump","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17814,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812\/revisions\/17814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}