{"id":28669,"date":"2018-03-15T11:53:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28669"},"modified":"2018-03-15T11:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:53:45","slug":"listen-up-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28669","title":{"rendered":"Listen up, Mr. President"},"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\/2018\/03\/hawking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28670\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hawking-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hawking-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hawking-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hawking.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ran across a compilation of quotes from the late Stephen Hawking, who died this week at the age of 76.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times published the quotes to illustrate the immense range and intellect of the famed physicist.<\/p>\n<p>One of them caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPeople who boast about their I.Q. are losers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check out all the quotations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/14\/world\/europe\/stephen-hawking-quotes.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Times didn&#8217;t attach dates to the quotations, so I do not know if Hawking had anyone in particular in mind when he said it.<\/p>\n<p>I clearly had someone in mind as I <em>read<\/em> it.<\/p>\n<p>Pay attention to this guy, Donald John &#8220;Stable Genius&#8221; Trump. He well might have been talking about you.<\/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 ran across a compilation of quotes from the late Stephen Hawking, who died this week at the age of 76. The New York Times published the quotes to illustrate the immense range and intellect of the famed physicist. One of them caught my eye. \u201cPeople who boast about their I.Q. are losers.\u201d Check out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Listen up, Mr. President<\/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":[5,13],"tags":[1424,3360,4413],"class_list":["post-28669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-ny-times","tag-stephen-hawking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669","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=28669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28671,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669\/revisions\/28671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}