{"id":22688,"date":"2017-06-27T16:44:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T16:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22688"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T16:44:46","slug":"crowd-size-really-must-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22688","title":{"rendered":"(Crowd) size really must matter"},"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>You mean we&#8217;re still talking about the size of that inaugural crowd this past January? We&#8217;re still arguing over whether it measured up to what the brand new president of the United States called it &#8212; the largest gathering of human beings in world history &#8230; or something like that?<\/p>\n<p>I guess in Donald J. Trump&#8217;s world, size matters.<\/p>\n<p>The National Park Service&#8217;s inspector general now says the agency didn&#8217;t mess with the crowd size estimates of Trump&#8217;s inaugural nor did it leak any information to the media.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill reports on the IG&#8217;s findings.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/339581-oig-report-national-park-services-did-not-change-records-of-crowd-size-at\">Read the story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This malarkey about crowd size seemed to get under the president&#8217;s skin early this year. Various media published pictures showing the crowd gathered in front of Capitol Building at President Barack Obama&#8217;s first inaugural in 2009 and compared it to the crowd that heard Trump&#8217;s speech this past January. Obama&#8217;s crowd was, um, quite a bit larger.<\/p>\n<p>Trump didn&#8217;t like hearing that. White House press secretary Sean Spicer&#8217;s initial press briefing included a serious scolding of the media for failing to report that the president&#8217;s inaugural crowd was the largest in history. The pictures, though, tell a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Will this spell the end of this mini-tempest? Probably not, as long as Donald John Trump is president of the United States.<\/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>You mean we&#8217;re still talking about the size of that inaugural crowd this past January? We&#8217;re still arguing over whether it measured up to what the brand new president of the United States called it &#8212; the largest gathering of human beings in world history &#8230; or something like that? I guess in Donald J. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Crowd) size really must matter<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[5701,3204,7166,6796,6842,5249],"class_list":["post-22688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-capitol-building","tag-national-park-service","tag-obama-inaugural","tag-sean-spicer","tag-trump-inaugural","tag-white-house-press-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22688","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=22688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22689,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22688\/revisions\/22689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}