{"id":4503,"date":"2021-05-07T19:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2021-05-07T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:12:08","slug":"the-elmers-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-elmers-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elmer&#8217;s treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1536786724684-63545518d243?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=MnwxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDF8fGdsdWV8ZW58MHx8fHwxNjIwNDE0MTQy&amp;ixlib=rb-1.2.1&amp;q=80&amp;w=2000\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good news is that spring has sprung, and so has Americans\u2019 approval of Congress. The rollout of coronavirus vaccines and the arrival of government relief checks have helped bolster the public\u2019s esteem to its highest level since 2009. From January to March the approval rating rose, Gallup reports, from 25 percent to 36 percent. So, what\u2019s the bad news? It\u2019s that the rise in public approval looks impressive only because the baseline was so abysmal. Less than half the public says it trusts the federal government to solve domestic or international problems&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanpurpose.com\/articles\/the-elmers-treatment\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is that spring has sprung, and so has Americans\u2019 approval of Congress. The rollout of coronavirus vaccines and the arrival of government relief checks have helped bolster the public\u2019s esteem to its highest level since 2009. From January to March the approval rating rose, Gallup reports, from 25 percent to 36 percent. [&hellip;]<\/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":[12],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-communications-and-or-propaganda","tag-american-purpose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1aD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","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=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}