{"id":28544,"date":"2018-03-10T00:51:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T00:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28544"},"modified":"2018-03-10T00:51:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T00:51:17","slug":"maybe-time-is-right-after-all-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28544","title":{"rendered":"Maybe time is right after all &#8230; maybe"},"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 dug a blog post out from nearly a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>I had posited a notion that Donald J. Trump shouldn&#8217;t meet with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un. I said Kim wasn&#8217;t worth the time or the attention of the leader of the greatest nation on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what. The president is hoping to meet no later than May with Kim. They&#8217;re going to talk about, oh let&#8217;s see, denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula? One can hope.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2017\/05\/dont-meet-with-the-dictator-mr-president\/<\/p>\n<p>I am not yet ready to fully endorse this planned summit. I remain highly skeptical of the president&#8217;s ability to negotiate with the goofball North Korean dictator. Moreover, I have grave doubt about whether the president&#8217;s foreign-policy team is able to provide him with the kind of intelligence he needs going into this meeting.<\/p>\n<p>That brings me back to another point: questioning whether the president is able to accept, digest and accept the analysis that his team provides him.<\/p>\n<p>I am backing off just a bit from my earlier declaration saying that Trump shouldn&#8217;t meet with Kim.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a bit.<\/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 dug a blog post out from nearly a year ago. I had posited a notion that Donald J. Trump shouldn&#8217;t meet with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un. I said Kim wasn&#8217;t worth the time or the attention of the leader of the greatest nation on Earth. Guess what. The president is hoping to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe time is right after all &#8230; maybe<\/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":[1424,2122,2681],"class_list":["post-28544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-kim-jong-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544","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=28544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28546,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544\/revisions\/28546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}