{"id":11887,"date":"2021-01-22T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=153720"},"modified":"2021-01-22T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T22:00:00","slug":"boredom-is-a-treat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/boredom-is-a-treat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Boredom is a Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"lead\">Well, we\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/joe-biden-sworn-in\/2021\/01\/20\/13465c90-5a7c-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">just several hours into Joe Biden\u2019s presidency<\/a> and so far the news alerts on my phone have been fairly quiet. Could we be entering a new, more boring presidency? I sure hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/20\/us\/politics\/biden-president.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden\/Kamala Harris Inauguration<\/a> finally put an end to the Trump presidency that was threatening not to end. I hope the lies, crazy conspiracies, and violent rightwing extremists disappear like Trump\u2019s second term, but that is probably being too optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>With the destruction wrought by Donald Trump and the dangerous, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/09\/us-militias-trump-election-day-covid-guns\"  rel=\"noopener\">far-right extremists he propagated and incited<\/a>, Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cunity\u201d is going to be a very tall order. At least we can revel in the immediate satisfaction of Trump policies being reversed and the pandemic being taken seriously.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/22\/boredom-is-a-treat\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we\u2019re just several hours into Joe Biden\u2019s presidency and so far the news alerts on my phone have been fairly quiet. Could we be entering a new,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887"}],"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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11888,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions\/11888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}