{"id":12395,"date":"2016-07-07T12:48:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T16:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12395"},"modified":"2016-07-07T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T16:48:47","slug":"trump-word-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12395","title":{"rendered":"Trump word salad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.if you have ever listened to the Donald talk&#8230;I won&#8217;t call it a speech because that would imply that the rules of speeches apply&#8230;that there is subject that you state, and then you proceed to make arguments to support your thesis&#8230;.but, I have never seen that in a Trump &#8220;speech&#8221;&#8230;they seem to be a word salad of him saying totally unrelated things, doubling back, and then driving off on any tangent that strikes him at the time&#8230;.kind of like listening to a three year old&#8230;but, it is even worse when you read the transcripts of these &#8220;speeches&#8221; and then you see that they never make any sense at all&#8230;and yet his followers take that as &#8220;telling it like it is&#8221; or some such nonsense&#8230;and I wonder if it is because they are just not too bright and don&#8217;t understand how the English language is used&#8230;.as I have said before, in my time when I was younger, the rants that pass for Trump speeches would have been shouted from a soapbox in the town square by a homeless guy wearing a tin foil hat&#8230;.not the candidate of a national party&#8230;at least we can hope that when ole Don is done, they might no longer be a national party&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.if you have ever listened to the Donald talk&#8230;I won&#8217;t call it a speech because that would imply that the rules of speeches apply&#8230;that there is subject that you state, and then you proceed to make arguments to support your thesis&#8230;.but, I have never seen that in a Trump &#8220;speech&#8221;&#8230;they seem to be a word &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump word salad&#8230;<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[424,1392],"class_list":["post-12395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-word-salad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12396,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions\/12396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}