{"id":19725,"date":"2017-02-11T23:47:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T23:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19725"},"modified":"2017-02-11T23:47:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T23:47:46","slug":"no-criticism-of-trump-golf-outings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19725","title":{"rendered":"No criticism of Trump golf outings"},"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\/2017\/02\/2011-trump-golfing-eyestone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19726\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2011-trump-golfing-eyestone-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2011-trump-golfing-eyestone-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2011-trump-golfing-eyestone.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hereby make a solemn vow: I will not criticize Donald J. Trump for playing golf while he serves as president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, took some unfair hits from critics who bitched about his golf outings. Why, they couldn&#8217;t understand why the president was playing golf while the world was spinning out of control all around him.<\/p>\n<p>I defended Obama. He is never <em>not<\/em> the president, I said.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll say the same thing about the guy who succeeded him. Trump took Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to his Florida estate for a round of golf, a few laughs &#8212; and maybe even some high-level diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Trump might get criticized by some. Not from me.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, fair is fair.<\/p>\n<p>Presidents deserve time off away from the hustle and bustle of the Oval Office. Even this 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 hereby make a solemn vow: I will not criticize Donald J. Trump for playing golf while he serves as president of the United States of America. Obama&#8217;s immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, took some unfair hits from critics who bitched about his golf outings. Why, they couldn&#8217;t understand why the president was playing golf while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No criticism of Trump golf outings<\/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":[540,1424,1937,3466,4261,5246],"class_list":["post-19725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-oval-office","tag-shinzo-abe","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725","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=19725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19727,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions\/19727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}