{"id":20994,"date":"2017-04-13T15:50:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20994"},"modified":"2017-04-13T18:59:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:59:29","slug":"eat-chocolate-cake-bomb-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20994","title":{"rendered":"Eat chocolate cake; bomb Syria?"},"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>I&#8217;ll give a prize to anyone who can figure out what Donald John &#8220;Smart Person&#8221; Trump meant to suggest while talking about his decision to unleash the Tomahawk missiles on Syrian targets.<\/p>\n<p>He told Fox News business correspondent Maria Bartiromo that he made the decision while visiting with the president of China at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>He said he decided to\u00a0reveal his decision to the Chinese president to bomb\u00a0the Syrians while eating a delicious piece of chocolate cake.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Now, what in the name of culinary pleasure does one have to do with the other?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Most beautiful piece of chocolate cake&#039; Trump orders and tells Xi of Syria strike over dessert\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mZr8ug8eNL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The president calls himself the king of the deal, the king of debt. For all I know perhaps he considers himself to be <em>king of the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I believe he is, without a doubt, the king of the non sequitur.<\/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&#8217;ll give a prize to anyone who can figure out what Donald John &#8220;Smart Person&#8221; Trump meant to suggest while talking about his decision to unleash the Tomahawk missiles on Syrian targets. He told Fox News business correspondent Maria Bartiromo that he made the decision while visiting with the president of China at his Mar-a-Lago &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eat chocolate cake; bomb Syria?<\/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":[5],"tags":[1424,1788,7057],"class_list":["post-20994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-syria-air-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994","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=20994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20996,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994\/revisions\/20996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}