{"id":22900,"date":"2016-09-12T21:40:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T02:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=22900"},"modified":"2016-09-12T21:40:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T02:40:57","slug":"the-real-story-behind-the-basket-of-deplorables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/the-real-story-behind-the-basket-of-deplorables\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story Behind The Basket of Deplorables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, first, that when I hear the term &#8220;Basket of Deplorables&#8221; I think right away of <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0151003084\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0151003084&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=24c1b554b71a542bdd6460778bb84b2f\">Edward Gorey<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0151003084\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, for some reason.  Do you?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve seen and hear a lot of whining and bellyaching about this term, and Secretary Clinton&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>But most people have only heard the statement, and not the discussion that led up to it. That, folks, is the real story. So spend two minutes and edumicate yourself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/idrgiAEk2Vs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I can&#8217;t see how one would support Trump unless one was fully deplorable, or a basket case, or both.  Secretary Clinton underestimated with that 50% thumbsuck guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, first, that when I hear the term &#8220;Basket of Deplorables&#8221; I think right away of Edward Gorey, for some reason. Do you? Anyway, I&#8217;ve seen and hear a lot of whining and bellyaching about this term, and Secretary Clinton&#8217;s statement. But most people have only heard the statement, and not the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/the-real-story-behind-the-basket-of-deplorables\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Real Story Behind The Basket of Deplorables<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2114,2115,2116,774,772,1029],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5Xm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}