{"id":138473,"date":"2019-03-29T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T17:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138473"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:39:35","slug":"the-dire-dreadful-urgency-of-the-national-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/the-dire-dreadful-urgency-of-the-national-emergency.html","title":{"rendered":"The dire, dreadful urgency of The National Emergency!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;This is a DIRE NATIONAL EMERGENCY, so I&#39;m going to threaten what I&#39;ll do&#8230; some time next week. Now I have to head off to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ie9POzttih\">https:\/\/t.co\/ie9POzttih<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1111679319099797505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a DIRE NATIONAL EMERGENCY, so I&#8217;m going to threaten what I&#8217;ll do&#8230; some time next week. Now I have to head off to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend.&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/ie9POzttih<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;This is a DIRE NATIONAL EMERGENCY, so I&#39;m going to threaten what I&#39;ll do&#8230; some time next week. Now I have to head off to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend.&quot; https:\/\/t.co\/ie9POzttih &mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) March 29, 2019 &#8220;This is a DIRE NATIONAL EMERGENCY, so I&#8217;m going to threaten what I&#8217;ll do&#8230; some time next week. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/the-dire-dreadful-urgency-of-the-national-emergency.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The dire, dreadful urgency of The National Emergency!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[78,10,17,1071],"tags":[723],"class_list":["post-138473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-trump","tag-nt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137369,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/donald-trump-and-the-big-lie-national-emergency-caravan-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":138473,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump and the Big Lie (National Emergency Caravan! 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