{"id":27643,"date":"2025-07-12T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27643"},"modified":"2025-07-12T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:21:15","slug":"stranger-than-fiction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27643","title":{"rendered":"Stranger than fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current U.S. president has threatened to strip Rosie O&#8217;Donnell of her U.S. citizenship, apparently just because he doesn&#8217;t like her. I wish I were making that up, but these days it seems that truth is stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it has been argued that it should go the other way: Rosie O&#8217;Donnell should strip the current American president of his U.S. citizenship. She certainly has cause, and it would make life easier for a lot of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>You might think such an event would be unlikely. There are some who make the technical point that a private citizen does not actually have the power to strip a sitting president of U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>However, considering the following fact: Rosie O&#8217;Donnell has exactly as much right to strip the president of his U.S. citizenship as he has to strip her of her U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess it&#8217;s a stand-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current U.S. president has threatened to strip Rosie O&#8217;Donnell of her U.S. citizenship, apparently just because he doesn&#8217;t like her. I wish I were making that up, but these days it seems that truth is stranger than fiction. On the other hand, it has been argued that it should go the other way: Rosie &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stranger than fiction&#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\/27643"}],"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=27643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27644,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27643\/revisions\/27644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}