{"id":179045,"date":"2018-06-04T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/04\/what-a-whiny-bitch\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T03:40:00","slug":"what-a-whiny-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/04\/what-a-whiny-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Whiny Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/04\/sports\/philadelphia-eagles-white-house.html\">the man with a merkin on his head is too much of a crybaby to deal with the fact that some football players disagree with him<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Trump abruptly called off the White House celebration honoring the Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles after nearly all of the players and coaches said they would boycott the visit after the president\u2019s demands that players stand during the national anthem at games.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">White House officials said that fewer than 10 members of the team were planning to attend the celebration on Tuesday afternoon on the South Lawn despite weeks of planning for the event, which is usually a nonpolitical celebration of a football victory.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Instead, this year\u2019s event to honor the Eagles has become a bitter reflection of the deep divisions in the United States over race, patriotism and Mr. Trump himself. When it became clear that most members of the team would not attend, Mr. Trump issued a blistering statement disinviting them.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe Philadelphia Eagles are unable to come to the White House with their full team to be celebrated tomorrow,\u201d Mr. Trump said in a statement released Monday evening. \u201cThey disagree with their president because he insists that they proudly stand for the national anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, this is the guy to protect us from the would be terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s not playing golf, he is cowering under his desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the man with a merkin on his head is too much of a crybaby to deal with the fact that some football players disagree with him: President Trump abruptly called off the White House celebration honoring the Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles after nearly all of the players and coaches said they would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[585,573,364,387,503],"class_list":["post-179045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cowardice","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}