{"id":83891,"date":"2022-11-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83891"},"modified":"2022-11-16T07:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:35:38","slug":"curious-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83891","title":{"rendered":"Curious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Remember when Jesse Ventura got elected governor?<\/p><p>He had what appeared to be a \u201cdeer in the headlights\u201d look about him \u2013 like he never expected to win the race, I had no idea what to do when he did. When he said \u201cwe shocked the world\u201c, he was being inclusive.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>There are those who say Donald Trump was in the same basic boat; He never really expected to become president. I don\u2019t necessarily believe that.<\/p><p>But I could read this next story and wonder if he\u2019s really thought all that terribly hard about running again.S<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay with me, here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Now, I was never a Donald Trump fan, but it would be dishonest not to say that he did some great things in office, and punched way above his weight on many levels.<\/p><p><\/p><p>One of his greatest achievements?  The sentencing reforms he drove halfway through his term, reducing federal sentences for petty drug distribution convictions and renegotiating sentences imposed during the insanely oversentenced  crack epidemic, started breaking the log jam of the black vote.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was one of his announcements last night:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/breaking911\/status\/1592713874100604928?s=46&#038;t=SOnNTxrk0xl-iXev0OFQrQ\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is he actually going to do a complete 180 on one of the best things he ever did for the actual party that nominated him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Jesse Ventura got elected governor? He had what appeared to be a \u201cdeer in the headlights\u201d look about him \u2013 like he never expected to win the race, I had no idea what to do when he did. When he said \u201cwe shocked the world\u201c, he was being inclusive. There are those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,13,367,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-republicans","category-trump","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83891","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=83891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83893,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83891\/revisions\/83893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}