{"id":4704,"date":"2019-03-21T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:50:14","slug":"hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=4704","title":{"rendered":"Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/mar\/20\/donald-trump-john-mccain-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI can\u2019t understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God,\u201d the Utah senator Mitt Romney\u00a0wrote\u00a0on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>McCain continued to speak out against Trump until his death, delivering a speech in which he decried\u00a0\u201chalf-baked, spurious nationalism\u201d\u00a0in a thinly veiled reference to the president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was\u00a0not invited\u00a0to McCain\u2019s funeral last year, which featured speeches by former presidents, including George W Bush and Barack Obama. Trump was not mentioned by name, but a stark contrast was drawn to his brand of politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does it mean to be a hero in 21st Century America? What does it mean to be a courageous politician? To Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez &#8222;John McCain\u2019s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service.&#8220; Liberal media like The Guardian here without irony present George W Bush to argue John McCain&#8217;s nobility in counterpoint to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Once the moorings have been lost, how are they to be regained?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: \u201cI can\u2019t understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God,\u201d the Utah senator Mitt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=4704\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}