{"id":136736,"date":"2018-06-12T19:03:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136736"},"modified":"2018-06-12T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:03:06","slug":"but-they-pledged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/but-they-pledged.html","title":{"rendered":"But they pledged!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fun true fact: North Korea previously pledged denuclearization in 1985, 1992, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016. Each pledge was a lie. If you believe any promise Kim made to Trump, I have five failed casinos in Atlantic City to sell you.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jefftiedrich\/status\/1006517283387248641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>RT @jefftiedrich: Fun true fact: North Korea previously pledged denuclearization in 1985, 1992, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun true fact: North Korea previously pledged denuclearization in 1985, 1992, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016. Each pledge was a lie. If you believe any promise Kim made to Trump, I have five failed casinos in Atlantic City to sell you. &mdash; Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich) June 12, 2018 RT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/but-they-pledged.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;But they pledged!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,10,1071],"tags":[1663,723,1077],"class_list":["post-136736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-trump","tag-kim-dprk","tag-nt","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132286,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/read-my-lips-no-new-deals.html","url_meta":{"origin":136736,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Read My Lips. 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