{"id":65786,"date":"2018-01-29T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65786"},"modified":"2018-01-28T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T17:04:44","slug":"amazing-cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65786","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Assonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Donald Trump was elected, Big Thinkers with Bylines predicted that he &#8211; and the BREXIT movement often associated with him and his rise &#8211; would gut US markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-42819405\">Apparently not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They also said that his intransigence would make American foreign policy even more fraught than it had been.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;n not exactly &#8220;tired of winning&#8221; yet, but it&#8217;s interesting how turning foreign policy and defense over to grownups &#8211; people who&#8217;ve read enough non-intersectional history to know that coddling bullies just gives you more bullies &#8211; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/irans-fast-boats-stop-harassing-u-s-navy-baffling-military-1516897301\">slowly moving some of the world&#8217;s needles in the right direction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Donald Trump was elected, Big Thinkers with Bylines predicted that he &#8211; and the BREXIT movement often associated with him and his rise &#8211; would gut US markets. Apparently not. They also said that his intransigence would make American foreign policy even more fraught than it had been. I&#8217;n not exactly &#8220;tired of winning&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65808,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65786\/revisions\/65808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}