{"id":113565,"date":"2017-04-08T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=113565"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T04:00:58","slug":"was-2016-an-ugly-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=113565","title":{"rendered":"Was 2016 An ‘Ugly’ Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m watching replays of the various networks on election night 2016. I keep hearing the MSM describe the election as “ugly” and they couldn’t wait for it to be over.<\/p>\n

I ask — ugly to whom? To whom was this election ugly? I loved the election. I found it beautiful. To Trump supporters, this was a beautiful election. To Hillary supporters, the election was ugly.<\/p>\n

To Arabs and Muslims, the creation and perpetuation of the modern state of Israel is ugly. For Jews and some others, it is beautiful. <\/p>\n

For millions, Auschwitz was a beautiful place because it killed so many Jews. For millions of other people, Auschwitz is the epitome of horror. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m watching replays of the various networks on election night 2016. I keep hearing the MSM describe the election as “ugly” and they couldn’t wait for it to be over. I ask — ugly to whom? To whom was this … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113565","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=113565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113571,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113565\/revisions\/113571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}