{"id":179076,"date":"2018-05-24T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/24\/these-guys-could-f-up-a-2-car-funeral\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T00:44:00","slug":"these-guys-could-f-up-a-2-car-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/24\/these-guys-could-f-up-a-2-car-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"These Guys Could F%$# Up a 2 Car Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/24\/world\/asia\/north-korea-trump-summit.html\">Donald Trump&#8217;s summit with Kim Jong-un has been canceled<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Trump on Thursday pulled out of a highly anticipated summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, accusing the North Koreans of bad faith and lamenting that \u201cthis missed opportunity is a truly sad moment in history.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The president made his announcement in a remarkably personal, at times mournful-sounding letter to Mr. Kim, North Korea\u2019s leader, in which he cited the North\u2019s \u201ctremendous anger and open hostility\u201d in recent public statements as the specific reason for canceling the meeting.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Trump said later that the meeting, which had been scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, could still happen, and North Korea issued a strikingly conciliatory response, saying it hoped Mr. Trump would reconsider.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But Mr. Trump also renewed talk of military action against the North and vowed to keep pressing economic sanctions, guaranteeing that for now, at least, his unlikely courtship of Mr. Kim will give way to a more familiar cycle of threats and tension.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, now we are back to nuclear chicken.&nbsp; This is a YUGE screw up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Donald Trump&#8217;s summit with Kim Jong-un has been canceled: President Trump on Thursday pulled out of a highly anticipated summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, accusing the North Koreans of bad faith and lamenting that \u201cthis missed opportunity is a truly sad moment in history.\u201dThe president made his announcement in a remarkably personal, at times &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":[573,543,588,394,477],"class_list":["post-179076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-dprk","tag-fail","tag-foreign-relations","tag-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179076"}],"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=179076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}