{"id":582,"date":"2026-01-18T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/?p=582"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:53:29","slug":"clearing-the-desktop-dept-political-re-gifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/clearing-the-desktop-dept-political-re-gifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing-The-Desktop Dept.: Political Re-gifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize, as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.\u201d<br \/>\n[Inspired savvy political street theater or amateur political faux pas?]<br \/>\n\u201cWe can count on President Trump [to do the wrong thing] regarding peace.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cMachado doesn\u2019t have the support within or the respect within the country to lead.\u201d<br \/>\n[Maybe giving the Peace Prize to Trump, who neither deserves it nor can legitimately accept it, emphacizes to her electoral base to vote Venezuela back into a free democracy, ruled by the people through their rulers. Then again, maybe it\u2019s just an amateur political faux pas. I guess we\u2019ll see how it plays out.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize, as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.\u201d [Inspired savvy political street theater or amateur political faux pas?] \u201cWe can count on President Trump [to do the wrong thing] regarding peace.&#8221; \u201cMachado doesn\u2019t have the support within or the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/clearing-the-desktop-dept-political-re-gifting\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"clearfix","9":"entry-grid","10":"entry-columns-default","11":"entry-post-module-layout-standard","12":"no-post-thumbnail","13":"entry-post","15":"entry-post-grid"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}