{"id":707,"date":"2020-04-17T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=707"},"modified":"2020-04-17T07:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:19:12","slug":"the-lack-of-national-leadership-is-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/17\/the-lack-of-national-leadership-is-telling\/","title":{"rendered":"The lack of national leadership is telling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t like discussing politics &#8211; it tends to bring out the worst in normally reasonable people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I can&#8217;t be silent to the fact that this COVID-19 Pandemic has been the worst display of presidential leadership (or really the lack thereof) I have ever witnessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Downplaying the risks, over-promising, grand standing, making it all about yourself, blaming others for your own missteps, claiming authorities the Constitution does not grant you, adding your &#8220;signature&#8221; to non-political stimulus money, personally attacking and belittling reporters asking questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To all Americans &#8211; we can do better. We deserve better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Comments off because I&#8217;m not going to deal with political toxicity &#8211; we get enough of that already.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like discussing politics &#8211; it tends to bring out the worst in normally reasonable people. But I can&#8217;t be silent to the fact that this COVID-19 Pandemic has been the worst display of presidential leadership (or really the lack thereof) I have ever witnessed. Downplaying the risks, over-promising, grand standing, making it all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,62],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-leadership","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}