{"id":17916,"date":"2015-08-08T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T09:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17916"},"modified":"2015-08-08T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T19:13:56","slug":"how-does-the-american-political-system-really-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17916","title":{"rendered":"How does the American political system really work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can offer at least two answers to this most important question.<\/p>\n<p>The first answer is to suggest that you read my &#8220;Short Guide To The American Political System&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Americanpoliticalsystem.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A second answer is that you note a comment by Donald Trump in the hustings this week between 10 Republicans who want to take on the Democratic candidate &#8211; presumed to be Hillary Clinton &#8211; in the presidential election next year.<\/p>\n<p>Now Trump has long courted the Clintons and donated to the former secretary of state\u2019s Senate campaign fund &#8211; but he had a simple explanation:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can offer at least two answers to this most important question. The first answer is to suggest that you read my &#8220;Short Guide To The American Political System&#8221; here. A second answer is that you note a comment by Donald Trump in the hustings this week between 10 Republicans who want to take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17924,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916\/revisions\/17924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}