{"id":24359,"date":"2017-09-01T00:41:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T00:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24359"},"modified":"2017-09-01T00:41:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T00:41:40","slug":"good-show-mr-potus-but-dont-brag-about-it-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24359","title":{"rendered":"Good show, Mr. POTUS, but don&#8217;t brag about it &#8230; please!"},"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>Donald J. Trump has stepped up in a big way to help the victims of Hurricane\/Tropical Storm Harvey.<\/p>\n<p>The president has pledged $1 million from his own fortune to pay for assistance to storm victims. I applaud the president for the generous pledge. White House press aides say he hasn&#8217;t yet decided which charity will get the money, but that he&#8217;ll deliver on the pledge in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>That is excellent news! Don&#8217;t you think? Of course you do!<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; I have to make this simple request of a president known to brag a bit too much on himself.<\/p>\n<p>It is just this: Mr. President, you do not need to remind us of the donation. You&#8217;ve pledged it. Decide which charitable organization will receive it. Then just go about doing your job. There&#8217;s not a single possible need for you to boast about your personal generosity.<\/p>\n<p>This might be tougher than we imagine for this president. I just hope he resists the temptation to make this kind effort all about himself.<\/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>Donald J. Trump has stepped up in a big way to help the victims of Hurricane\/Tropical Storm Harvey. The president has pledged $1 million from his own fortune to pay for assistance to storm victims. I applaud the president for the generous pledge. White House press aides say he hasn&#8217;t yet decided which charity will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good show, Mr. POTUS, but don&#8217;t brag about it &#8230; please!<\/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":[1424,7268],"class_list":["post-24359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hurricane-harvey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359","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=24359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24361,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions\/24361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}