{"id":30239,"date":"2018-06-11T00:44:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30239"},"modified":"2018-06-11T00:44:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:44:55","slug":"no-sightseeing-here-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30239","title":{"rendered":"No &#8216;sightseeing&#8217; here, Mr. POTUS"},"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\/06\/harvey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30240\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/harvey-167x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/harvey-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/harvey.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture showed up on my Facebook news feed. It&#8217;s a page from today&#8217;s Houston Chronicle, the newspaper that has told the compelling, heartbreaking and heroic stories stemming from the Hurricane Harvey onslaught.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a point here, of course. The headline refers to that idiotic comment the other day from Donald Trump, who suggested that Texans were out looking at the storm in their boats, causing the rash of water rescues rescues from first responders.<\/p>\n<p>He was on that conference call with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials when he blurted out yet another thoughtless comment, this time about Hurricane Harvey.<\/p>\n<p>The storm dumped 50 inches of rain on the Gulf Coast in the span of 24 hours this past summer. Gawkers? Rubberneckers? Is that what Trump said was occurring out there in the midst of the storm?<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Chronicle has offered the perfect response.<\/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>This picture showed up on my Facebook news feed. It&#8217;s a page from today&#8217;s Houston Chronicle, the newspaper that has told the compelling, heartbreaking and heroic stories stemming from the Hurricane Harvey onslaught. There&#8217;s a point here, of course. The headline refers to that idiotic comment the other day from Donald Trump, who suggested that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No &#8216;sightseeing&#8217; here, Mr. POTUS<\/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":[18],"tags":[1424,6237,7268],"class_list":["post-30239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-houston-chronicle","tag-hurricane-harvey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30239","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=30239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30241,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30239\/revisions\/30241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}