{"id":7890,"date":"2016-06-20T14:18:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7890"},"modified":"2016-06-20T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:18:27","slug":"kareem-abdul-jabbar-trump-and-isis-depend-on-irrationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/kareem-abdul-jabbar-trump-and-isis-depend-on-irrationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Trump and ISIS Depend on Irrationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ti.me\/28KEo7r\">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Trump and ISIS Depend on Irrationality<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congress was elected to protect our children, not sell them out for campaign contributions from gun manufacturers and the NRA. They can yammer about the Second Amendment all they want, but that\u2019s just another smoke screen so we don\u2019t notice that their jobs are paid for with our children\u2019s blood. <\/p>\n<p>Who really needs assault-style rifles that can kill 50 people and wound 53 more in a matter of minutes? Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson claims the people need them to fight off \u201ca growing police state.\u201d Johnson believes when citizens have assault weapons, the government is more likely to grant them due process. <strong>Read that again; it\u2019s as crazy as it sounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Trump and ISIS Depend on Irrationality Congress was elected to protect our children, not sell them out for campaign contributions from gun manufacturers and the NRA. They can yammer about the Second Amendment all they want, but that\u2019s just another smoke screen so we don\u2019t notice that their jobs are paid for with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/kareem-abdul-jabbar-trump-and-isis-depend-on-irrationality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Trump and ISIS Depend on Irrationality<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-furg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}