{"id":200235,"date":"2021-06-02T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/02\/wimp\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:09:00","slug":"wimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/02\/wimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/06\/02\/trump-blog-dead\/\">shut down his blog<\/a>, because not enough people were clicking in to his musings.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging since 2007,<sup>*<\/sup> and I&#8217;m not giving up.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I think that I have missed fewer than 10 days since I&#8217;ve started blogging.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, if I did not have this outlet for my unsolicited opinions, I am certain that Sharon<sup>\u2020<\/sup> would have murdered me long ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Former president Donald Trump\u2019s blog, celebrated by advisers as a \u201cbeacon of freedom\u201d that would keep him relevant in an online world he once dominated, is dead. It was 29 days old.<\/p>\n<p>Upset by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/05\/21\/trump-online-traffic-plunge\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\">reports from The Washington Post<\/a> and other outlets highlighting its measly readership and concerns that it could detract from a social media platform he wants to launch later this year, Trump ordered his team Tuesday to put the blog out of its misery, advisers said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">On its last day, the site received just 1,500 shares or comments on Facebook and Twitter \u2014 a staggering drop for someone whose every tweet once garnered hundreds of thousands of reactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It should surprise no one that delicate snow-flake Donald Trump threw a tantrum about not being treated like a king.<\/p>\n<p>What a prima donna.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Holy sh%$.  That&#8217;s almost 14 years.  I need to get a life.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Love of my life, light of the  cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">she  who must be obeyed<\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Donald Trump shut down his blog, because not enough people were clicking in to his musings. I&#8217;ve been blogging since 2007,* and I&#8217;m not giving up. In fact, I think that I have missed fewer than 10 days since I&#8217;ve started blogging. To be fair, if I did not have this outlet &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,987,1051,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-fail","category-hypocrisy","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200235"}],"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=200235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}