{"id":2926,"date":"2018-06-12T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2018-06-12T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T02:34:10","slug":"the-bloody-pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2926","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;The Bloody Pulpit&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who used to be a preacher, and on the phone recently he mixed metaphors, calling his calling a \u201cbloody pulpit.\u201d&#160; I had heard of a \u201cbully pulpit\u201d \u2014referring to Theodore Roosevelt\u2019s use of his Presidency as that. But nowadays the presidency of Donald Trump has become so very controversial as to approximate a bloody pulpit\u2014not that his opponents are less crude. It is in-deed a controversial era. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who used to be a preacher, and on the phone recently he mixed metaphors, calling his calling a \u201cbloody pulpit.\u201d&#160; I had heard of a \u201cbully pulpit\u201d \u2014referring to Theodore Roosevelt\u2019s use of his Presidency as that. But nowadays the presidency of Donald Trump has become so very controversial as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follies","category-uncategorized","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}