{"id":105075,"date":"2016-09-01T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105075"},"modified":"2016-09-01T11:42:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:42:25","slug":"observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105075","title":{"rendered":"Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend says:<\/p>\n<p>* Colin Kaepernick:   For years, the NFL has wrapped itself in the flag, allowing the military to promote itself during games, and marketing football itself as the quintessential American sport.  If the fan base and the league chooses to not \u201cpunish\u201d Kaepernick, it will show that there has been a significant shift  away from traditional American patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>* Trump in Mexico.   There seems to be a lot of criticism from Mexicans and even Trump opponents in the U.S. directed against Pena Nieto for inviting Trump.   When Pena Nieto\u2019s motivations for the invitation have been commented on, his personal unpopularity among the Mexican population is mentioned, but no one has said that what he is doing is prudent.  Trump might get elected and the most important foreign relation that Mexico has to be mindful of is its relationship with the United States  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend says: * Colin Kaepernick: For years, the NFL has wrapped itself in the flag, allowing the military to promote itself during games, and marketing football itself as the quintessential American sport. If the fan base and the league &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105075\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105076,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105075\/revisions\/105076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}