{"id":31453,"date":"2016-03-04T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=31453"},"modified":"2016-03-04T11:51:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:51:05","slug":"the-cad-who-would-be-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/03\/the-cad-who-would-be-king.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cad Who Would Be King"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31454\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/03\/Trump_Plaza_Hotel_Atlantic_City.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31454\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31454\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/03\/Trump_Plaza_Hotel_Atlantic_City-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Trump in NJ\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Atlantic City\u2019s White Houses?<br>(Wikimedia CC; click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/nine-tales-of-trump-at-his-trumpiest\/article\/2000697\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cNine Tales of Trump at His Trumpiest\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one of the slogans of those who oppose Caesarotrumpism should be \u201cRemember Vera Coking!\u201d \u00a0There may still be some hope, though it\u2019s waning rapidly, of recalling a few Trumpists to dim recollections of human decency.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from San Jose, California<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cNine Tales of Trump at His Trumpiest\u201d \u00a0 Perhaps one of the slogans of those who oppose Caesarotrumpism should be \u201cRemember Vera Coking!\u201d \u00a0There may still be some hope, though it\u2019s waning rapidly, of recalling a few Trumpists to dim recollections of human decency. \u00a0 Posted from San Jose, California \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Cad Who Would Be King<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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