{"id":35219,"date":"2024-07-14T10:43:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=35219"},"modified":"2024-07-14T10:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T17:43:34","slug":"too-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=35219","title":{"rendered":"Too Perfect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning after, I&#8217;m torn. The shooting of Donald Trump \u2014 okay, the attempted assassination \u2014 was real. But I keep coming back to this photo, taken last night by Evan Vucci of the Associated Press, which may very well cinch the election for Trump:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2q45V5S\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53856163486_e50d995798_c.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1881\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima\">iconic image<\/a><\/strong>, which it so resembles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2q47uxy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53856471158_4af685e9ec_c.jpg\" alt=\"Iwo Jima Photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s too perfect. If it were deliberately posed, could it be any better? The heroic victim, blood on his face? The raised fist? The flag?<\/p>\n<p>Staging an attempted assassination to get a knockout photo that&#8217;ll win an election (and being willing to accept civilian casualties to get it) is something you&#8217;d see in a movie. Is Trump, or anyone in his camp, clever enough to have pulled something like that off? That diabolical?<\/p>\n<p>Putin, maybe. Bannon?<\/p>\n<p>One thing I know, we can&#8217;t believe anything we&#8217;re told, nor, these days, shown. For now, that&#8217;s all I have to say about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I know, we can&#8217;t believe anything we&#8217;re told, nor, these days, shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[4589,4588,2024],"class_list":["post-35219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-politics","tag-colormeskeptical","tag-conspiracy","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35223,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219\/revisions\/35223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}