{"id":3907,"date":"2020-12-26T02:14:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T02:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=143638"},"modified":"2020-12-26T02:14:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T02:14:40","slug":"the-year-in-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/26\/the-year-in-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/downloads\/15369\/download\/progressivestill%20%281%29.png?cb=d01f04518ee81f831ed6fcad2462a3b2&amp;w=1200\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"lead\">How do I hate thee, 2020? Let me count the ways. Sure, there was plenty of cartoon material, but I\u2019d have much rather we had a boring ol\u2019 year. No such luck this turn around the sun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We saw everything from a horrible pandemic to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-end-of-presidency.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">deranged U.S. president<\/a>&nbsp;trying to overturn the will of the voters (democracy) so he can stay in office to avoid prosecution. As the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-pardon-manafort-stone.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">presidential pardons<\/a>&nbsp;come fast and furious for scores of Trump-connected criminals, the big question is: will he pardon himself?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, the other big question is: will he leave? Unfortunately, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">grand Switch of Awfulness<\/a>&nbsp;will not magically be turned off in 2021. We are sure to see some crazy things, particularly between now and January 20th. Fingers and toes crossed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays, stay safe and I\u2019ll see you in the new year!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/26\/the-year-in-bad\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I hate thee, 2020? Let me count the ways. Sure, there was plenty of cartoon material, but I\u2019d have much rather we had a boring ol\u2019\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\/3907"}],"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=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}