{"id":28748,"date":"2019-01-06T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28748"},"modified":"2019-01-06T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:14:07","slug":"the-wall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28748","title":{"rendered":"The Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stable. Genius.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/05\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-border-wall.html\">WASHINGTON<\/a> \u2014 Before it became the chief sticking point in a government shutdown drama that threatens to consume his presidency at a critical moment, President Trump\u2019s promise to build a wall on the southwestern border was a memory trick for an undisciplined candidate.<\/p>\n<p>As Mr. Trump began exploring a presidential run in 2014, his political advisers landed on the idea of a border wall as a mnemonic device of sorts, a way to make sure their candidate \u2014 who hated reading from a script but loved boasting about himself and his talents as a builder \u2014 would remember to talk about getting tough on immigration, which was to be a signature issue in his nascent campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we get him to continue to talk about immigration?\u201d Sam Nunberg, one of Mr. Trump\u2019s early political advisers, recalled telling Roger J. Stone Jr., another adviser. \u201cWe\u2019re going to get him to talk about he\u2019s going to build a wall.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stable. Genius. WASHINGTON \u2014 Before it became the chief sticking point in a government shutdown drama that threatens to consume his presidency at a critical moment, President Trump\u2019s promise to build a wall on the southwestern border was a memory trick for an undisciplined candidate. As Mr. Trump began exploring a presidential run in 2014, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28749,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748\/revisions\/28749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}