{"id":425,"date":"2025-09-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/rebecca-solnit-on-trump-books-and-the-reincarnation-of-king-george-iii-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:00:12","slug":"rebecca-solnit-on-trump-books-and-the-reincarnation-of-king-george-iii-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/rebecca-solnit-on-trump-books-and-the-reincarnation-of-king-george-iii-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Solnit on Trump, Books, and the Reincarnation of King George III | The Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>with Trump, it\u2019s almost as though television became an Antichrist and appeared on the earth. Everything wrong with TV and social media, all the fluid, gelatinous, dumbed-down, pandering, unreliable stuff, just pours out of him incessantly. And the fact that TV made him what he is\u2014because TV portrayed him as a very successful and decisive businessman when he was actually a daddy\u2019s boy, a serial bankrupt\u2014he is TV, in a way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/qa-rebecca-solnit-trump-books\/#\">www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/qa-rebecca-solnit-trump-books\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with Trump, it\u2019s almost as though television became an Antichrist and appeared on the earth. Everything wrong with TV and social media, all the fluid, gelatinous, dumbed-down, pandering, unreliable stuff, just pours out of him incessantly. And the fact that TV made him what he is\u2014because TV portrayed him as a very successful and decisive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}