{"id":9228,"date":"2016-09-29T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2016-09-29T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T22:04:59","slug":"why-i-didnt-watch-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/why-i-didnt-watch-the-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I didn&#8217;t watch the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump happened on Monday (September 26th). I watched a few minutes of it but then stopped. I had a feeling that I couldn&#8217;t immediately name.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I named it &#8212; no one should have to watch a debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. It&#8217;s completely ridiculous that Donald Trump is a candidate for president. Extremely seriously wrong things have happened to make that so.<\/p>\n<p>I did read up on the debate afterwards. I hope that Clinton&#8217;s clear win in the debate will matter in the polls, but I&#8217;m not sure I can trust that it will.<\/p>\n<p>Need another reason not to vote for Trump? I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d noticed this consciously but he never laughs. You might say that&#8217;s trivial, but think about it &#8212; there&#8217;s something seriously wrong with a person who never laughs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/have-you-ever-seen-donald-trump-laugh\/\"> Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump happened on Monday (September 26th). I watched a few minutes of it but then stopped. I had a feeling that I couldn&#8217;t immediately name. The next day I named it &#8212; no one should have to watch a debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. It&#8217;s [&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":[22],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-9228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228","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=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9229,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/9229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}