{"id":1171606,"date":"2023-08-04T05:50:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=290741"},"modified":"2023-08-04T05:50:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:50:42","slug":"an-american-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/04\/an-american-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImagination is the only weapon in the war with reality.\u201d &#8211;Lewis Carroll, the Cheshire cat in \u201cAlice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland.\u201d The \u201cAmerican carnage\u201d of a purveyor of lies, fantasy and hate \u2013 his campaign strategy for president three times since 2015 \u2013 finally has met reality. He again is trying to pretend being the target  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/04\/an-american-tragedy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/04\/an-american-tragedy\/\">An American Tragedy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/04\/an-american-tragedy\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImagination is the only weapon in the war with reality.\u201d &#8211;Lewis Carroll, the Cheshire cat in \u201cAlice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland.\u201d The \u201cAmerican carnage\u201d of a purveyor of lies, fantasy and hate \u2013 his campaign strategy for president three times sin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171607,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171606\/revisions\/1171607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}