{"id":20739,"date":"2016-12-01T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20739"},"modified":"2016-12-01T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:36:35","slug":"should-we-hold-donald-trump-to-his-promises-all-282-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20739","title":{"rendered":"Should we hold Donald Trump to his promises? All 282 of them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the course of the long campaign, President-elect Donald Trump made an astonishing number of promises &#8211; some very specific, other terrible vague; some quite positive, but many utterly fanciful.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the &#8220;Washington Post&#8221;, Jenna Johnson has compiled a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/i-will-give-you-everything-here-are-282-of-donald-trumps-campaign-promises\/2016\/11\/24\/01160678-b0f9-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html?postshare=1971480524286291&amp;tid=ss_fb&amp;utm_term=.9c775aed0991\">282 Trump promises<\/a>. In the interests of political accountability, the Democratic Party, the media and electors should be watching over the next four years to see how many of these promises are kept.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many of them are so indeterminate that Trump will have no difficulty pretending that he has met his objectives. In other cases, Trump will use his longstanding ability to flip-flop and either deny that he made the promise or simply change his mind.<\/p>\n<p>You can have real fun &#8211; sometimes a loud laugh &#8211; working through the list but, like me, you are likely to have mixed wishes on implementation. As an example, I would love to see 1 and 2 but do not want to see 65 and 66. What about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the course of the long campaign, President-elect Donald Trump made an astonishing number of promises &#8211; some very specific, other terrible vague; some quite positive, but many utterly fanciful. Writing for the &#8220;Washington Post&#8221;, Jenna Johnson has compiled a list of 282 Trump promises. In the interests of political accountability, the Democratic Party, the [&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-20739","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\/20739","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=20739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20743,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20739\/revisions\/20743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}