{"id":14599,"date":"2019-07-01T11:11:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T15:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=14599"},"modified":"2019-07-01T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T15:11:34","slug":"why-dont-we-try-peace-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/why-dont-we-try-peace-for-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#8217;t we try peace for a change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article from the Guardian points out that Trump promised he would get the US out of wars, and he hasn&#8217;t. It points out that both Republicans and Democrats have been pretty much pro-war for some time, but polls indicate that people are tired of it. With so many, many things wrong with Trump it may be difficult to articulate in the sound bites the media demands what distinguishes Democrats from Trump &#8212; this is one clear way of doing it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jul\/01\/democrats-defeat-trump-radically-anti-war\">Here&#8217;s one way Democrats can defeat Trump: be radically anti-war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from the Guardian points out that Trump promised he would get the US out of wars, and he hasn&#8217;t. It points out that both Republicans and Democrats have been pretty much pro-war for some time, but polls indicate that people are tired of it. With so many, many things wrong with Trump it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[101,32],"class_list":["post-14599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-peace-conflict","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14601,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions\/14601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}