{"id":754,"date":"2015-10-15T21:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:42:02","slug":"peak-trump-just-kidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/peak-trump-just-kidding\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Trump!  Just Kidding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I called Peak Trump a few week ago, said he would be struggling for second by now. \u00a0WRONG. \u00a0Since then, the race has appeared almost frozen, with only three movers: Fiorina and Bush have faded, while Carson has picked up steam, edging toward 20% in the realclearpolitics.com average of polls. \u00a0The Democrats have all the action right now, but when it&#8217;s media apparatchik action, it doesn&#8217;t work so well for them, as their swarm attack on Carson is just giving him an opportunity to shine. \u00a0So they can have their Sanders and Clinton debacle, and the GOP field is sitting pretty. \u00a0I cannot wait until one of our clowns gets to take apart theirs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"754\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"754\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I called Peak Trump a few week ago, said he would be struggling for second by now. \u00a0WRONG. \u00a0Since then, the race has appeared almost frozen, with only three movers: Fiorina and Bush have faded, while Carson has picked up steam, edging toward 20% in the realclearpolitics.com average of polls. \u00a0The Democrats have all the action right now, but when it&#8217;s media apparatchik action, it doesn&#8217;t work so well for them, as their swarm attack on Carson is just giving him an opportunity to shine. \u00a0So they can have their Sanders and Clinton debacle, and the GOP field is sitting pretty. \u00a0I cannot wait until one of our clowns gets to take apart theirs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"754\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/peak-trump-just-kidding\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}