{"id":3577,"date":"2017-01-21T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T14:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2017-01-21T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T14:26:45","slug":"six-quick-takes-on-president-trumps-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/six-quick-takes-on-president-trumps-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quick Takes On President Trump’s Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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White House photographer, Official White House Facebook page<\/p><\/div>\n

#1 Thank you for making\u00a0your speech<\/a>\u00a0short. Really, the days when folks enjoyed hearing long orations have passed.<\/p>\n

#2 I am glad you thanked the Obamas for being \u201cmagnificent\u201d to you during the transition. Offering \u201cgracious aid\u201d to an incoming president is part of the orderly transfer of government. I hope you\u2019ll be as helpful when your time to depart comes.<\/p>\n

#3 These statements are true and I hope you work with Congress to do something about it:\u00a0\u201cAmericans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families and good jobs for themselves \u2026 But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

….Read more at the R Street Institute Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#1 Thank you for making\u00a0your speech\u00a0short. Really, the days when folks enjoyed hearing long orations have passed. #2 I am glad you thanked the Obamas for being \u201cmagnificent\u201d to you during the transition. Offering \u201cgracious aid\u201d to an incoming president is part of the orderly transfer of government. I hope you\u2019ll be as helpful when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[136],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidents","tag-r-street-institute-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-VH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}