{"id":9677,"date":"2019-08-11T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9677"},"modified":"2019-08-11T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T16:41:02","slug":"no-leader-of-my-free-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9677","title":{"rendered":"No leader of my free world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear American friends: please stop calling your President &#8220;the leader of the free world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/me.me\/i\/the-world-s-laughing-at-us-folks-fr-cartoon-monday-21492889\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9678\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump-clown.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump-clown.png 504w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump-clown-294x300.png 294w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump-clown-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump-clown-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump-clown-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump-clown-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I live in what you call the free world but Trump is no leader of mine. I have not elected him. He does not represent my values.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, he seems hell-bent on destroying the values that I consider fundamental to the free world. He already managed to drag his own country down (though arguably, other politicians and long-term partisan trends played an equally important role) so that it no longer qualifies as a full democracy on The Economist&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/infographics.economist.com\/2019\/DemocracyIndex\/\">democracy index<\/a>. Why would the rest of the free world want him to lead us down the same path?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9677' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear American friends: please stop calling your President &#8220;the leader of the free world&#8221;. I live in what you call the free world but Trump is no leader of mine. I have not elected him. He does not represent my values. On the contrary, he seems hell-bent on destroying the values that I consider fundamental <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9677' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","category-59-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9683,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}