{"id":18046,"date":"2016-11-19T21:19:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T21:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18046"},"modified":"2016-11-19T21:19:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T21:19:03","slug":"vp-elect-gets-booed-at-hamilton-and-trump-wants-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18046","title":{"rendered":"VP-elect gets booed at &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; &#8230; and Trump wants an apology?"},"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\/th7K6MH10E.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18047\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/th7K6MH10E-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"th7k6mh10e\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Pence went to a show last night and got greeted with a mixture of boos and cheers.<\/p>\n<p>So what? The vice president-elect is about to assume a new post in the Trump administration in the wake of a hotly contested election. His side got fewer popular votes than the other side. The nation is deeply divided.<\/p>\n<p>Does he expect to be greeted now with universal good cheer? Of course not!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-demands-apology-from-hamilton-cast-after-mike-pence-booed\/ar-AAku2i4?li=BBnb7Kz\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-demands-apology-from-hamilton-cast-after-mike-pence-booed\/ar-AAku2i4?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is even weirder, though, is that the president-elect has demanded an apology. From whom? The audience members who jeered Pence? Who, precisely, is supposed to issue\u00a0such an\u00a0apology?<\/p>\n<p>This kind of thing goes with the territory. I am betting that Pence &#8212; who&#8217;s actually held public office for quite some time &#8212; gets it. He understands the give-and-take often leads to the rough-and-tumble and that feelings do get strained and hurt in the course of a difficult political battle.<\/p>\n<p>So it is as the dust starts to settle on this highly improbable presidential election &#8212; and its stunning conclusion.<\/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>Mike Pence went to a show last night and got greeted with a mixture of boos and cheers. So what? The vice president-elect is about to assume a new post in the Trump administration in the wake of a hotly contested election. His side got fewer popular votes than the other side. The nation is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VP-elect gets booed at &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; &#8230; and Trump wants an apology?<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,6682,3067],"class_list":["post-18046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hamilton","tag-mike-pence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046","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=18046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18048,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046\/revisions\/18048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}