{"id":4137,"date":"2016-07-30T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2016-07-30T18:10:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T00:10:55","slug":"the-wrath-of-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2016\/07\/30\/the-wrath-of-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrath of Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The father and mother of fallen American soldier Homayoun Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Xzkkk-oJ6bo?t=180\">stood on the stage at the Democratic convention<\/a>&nbsp;as the week drew to a close. The father, Khizr Khan, spoke of Donald Trump: &#8220;He vows to build walls and ban us from this country.&rdquo; He paused, the supportive crowd grumbled and booed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump,&rdquo; he said, rhetorically addressing the man as he held up his index finger to accentuate his words. &ldquo;You are asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you, have you even <em><strong>read<\/strong><\/em> the United States Constitution?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the crowd erupted in cheers, he reached into his suit coat an pulled out a small dark blue pamphlet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will gladly,&rdquo; he said, holding it up into the air. &ldquo;I will gladly lend you <strong><em>my<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>copy<\/em><\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>His voice wavered. And the crowd went wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Xzkkk-oJ6bo?t=180\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2016\/07\/i-ZG2rCKR\/0\/S\/KhizirKhan-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father and mother of fallen American soldier Homayoun Khan stood on the stage at the Democratic convention&nbsp;as the week drew to a close. The father, Khizr Khan, spoke of Donald Trump: &#8220;He vows to build walls and ban us from this country.&rdquo; He paused, the supportive crowd grumbled and booed. &ldquo;Donald Trump,&rdquo; he said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}