{"id":27692,"date":"2025-08-01T17:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27692"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:04:19","slug":"a-bold-and-decisive-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27692","title":{"rendered":"A bold and decisive move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a disappointing jobs report, the U.S. president, in a bold and decisive move, fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the bureau of Labor statistics.<\/p>\n<p>His reasoning was simple: The downturn in the nation&#8217;seconomy couldn&#8217;t possibly be due to his recent punitive trade policies, so it must have been caused by the commissioner manipulating the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, it rained in our nation&#8217;s capital, and the president got wet. In a bold and decisive move, he fired the weatherman.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, an apple fell from a tree. Due to gravity, it hit the president on the head. In a bold and decisive move, he fired Sir Isaac Newton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a disappointing jobs report, the U.S. president, in a bold and decisive move, fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the bureau of Labor statistics. His reasoning was simple: The downturn in the nation&#8217;seconomy couldn&#8217;t possibly be due to his recent punitive trade policies, so it must have been caused by the commissioner manipulating the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A bold and decisive move&#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\/27692"}],"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=27692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27695,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27692\/revisions\/27695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}