{"id":180921,"date":"2016-11-23T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/23\/the-term-is-idiot-savant\/"},"modified":"2016-11-23T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T01:47:00","slug":"the-term-is-idiot-savant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/23\/the-term-is-idiot-savant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Term is Idiot Savant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that people are trying to find a method to the Trump madness, and so theyu are throwing around terms like, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/663225\/demagogic-genius-donald-j-trump\">Demagogic genius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the term political idiot savant is more accurate, if somewhat politically incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, politically incorrect is the new black for the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that people are trying to find a method to the Trump madness, and so theyu are throwing around terms like, &#8220;Demagogic genius. I think that the term political idiot savant is more accurate, if somewhat politically incorrect. Then again, politically incorrect is the new black for the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[898,813,799,810],"class_list":["post-180921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-language","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180921"}],"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=180921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}