{"id":28243,"date":"2026-02-28T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28243"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:34:48","slug":"i-wish-id-been-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28243","title":{"rendered":"I wish I&#8217;d been wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three days ago, the morning after the State of the Union address, it came to light that documents had mysteriously gone missing which apparently detailed the violent sexual assault of a then-underage Epstein victim by our current president. In my blog post that day, I worried that we would soon be treated to a distraction in the form of a sudden invasion of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I&#8217;d been wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if we could have a magic wand that converted whatever anyone said into the truth? If we had such a wand, this morning we might seeing the following announcement from the White House:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation against this very wicked, radical dictatorship to distract the American people from thinking about those missing Epstein documents,\u201d the president said. \u201cWe\u2019re doing this for my future, and it is a noble mission.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days ago, the morning after the State of the Union address, it came to light that documents had mysteriously gone missing which apparently detailed the violent sexual assault of a then-underage Epstein victim by our current president. In my blog post that day, I worried that we would soon be treated to a distraction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I wish I&#8217;d been wrong&#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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28246,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28243\/revisions\/28246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}