{"id":21339,"date":"2019-07-18T20:32:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21339"},"modified":"2019-07-18T20:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T01:32:04","slug":"hypothetical-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21339","title":{"rendered":"Hypothetical question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that our president&#8217;s grandfather emigrated to the U.S. by breaking the law, would it be reasonable at a Democratic rally for the crowd to start shouting &#8220;Send him back&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>And if they did that, suppose the Democratic candidate were to simply look on silently, allowing the chant to rise to a meme-creating crescendo.<\/p>\n<p>And suppose the next day, when it was too late, the Democratic candidate were to finally disavow the &#8220;Send him back&#8221; chant, saying that the president should not have to answer to the unlawful way his grandfather came to our country.<\/p>\n<p>Would we be ok with her doing that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that our president&#8217;s grandfather emigrated to the U.S. by breaking the law, would it be reasonable at a Democratic rally for the crowd to start shouting &#8220;Send him back&#8221;? And if they did that, suppose the Democratic candidate were to simply look on silently, allowing the chant to rise to a meme-creating crescendo. And &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hypothetical question&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21340,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339\/revisions\/21340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}