{"id":31779,"date":"2018-08-14T00:35:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31779"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:36:08","slug":"wishing-this-outcome-had-panned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31779","title":{"rendered":"Wishing this prediction had panned out"},"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&#8217;m in a strange mood this evening. I am feeling a bit of a <em>mea culpa<\/em> urge entering my aching body.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than three years ago, I &#8220;predicted&#8221; the demise of the Donald John Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign after he uttered the infamous phrase that U.S. Sen. John McCain was a war hero &#8220;only because he was captured&#8221; and that he he liked &#8220;those who aren&#8217;t captured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought at that moment that Trump had just self-immolated his campaign for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, man, was I ever wrong about that.<\/p>\n<p>So, I want to send it out one more time as my attempt at self-deprecation.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, no one&#8217;s perfect.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2015\/07\/this-is-when-donald-trumps-candidacy-died\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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&#8217;m in a strange mood this evening. I am feeling a bit of a mea culpa urge entering my aching body. A little more than three years ago, I &#8220;predicted&#8221; the demise of the Donald John Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign after he uttered the infamous phrase that U.S. Sen. John McCain was a war hero &#8220;only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wishing this prediction had panned out<\/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":[7932],"tags":[2546,3690,5116],"class_list":["post-31779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-john-mccain","tag-pow","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31779","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=31779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31782,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31779\/revisions\/31782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}