{"id":7711,"date":"2017-12-24T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=7711"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:11:32","slug":"trump-v-moby-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2017\/trump-v-moby-dick","title":{"rendered":"Trump v Moby-Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become a real fan of\u00a0<span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MobyDickatSea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@<b class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">MobyDickatSea<\/b><\/a>, a bot-based feed of random quotes from the book. It&#8217;s amazing how well some of these fragments stand up as individual thoughts!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the inauguration of <strong>@realDonaldTrump<\/strong> I noticed a pattern&#8230; random juxtaposition of quotes that seemed to provide commentary on the man and his policies. Some of these are remarkably good and I&#8217;ve collected them for your entertainment. They are also a testament to how similar our new prez is to the doomed Captain Ahab! [<a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/trumpvmobydick\">Go to Main Article<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7886\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-v-Moby-Dick-27-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-v-Moby-Dick-27-1.png 640w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-v-Moby-Dick-27-1-111x150.png 111w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-v-Moby-Dick-27-1-185x250.png 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;ll be updating <a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/trumpvmobydick\">this article<\/a> and tweeting to\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richard_rathe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\">@R<b class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">ichard_Rathe<\/b><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;q=%23TrumpvMobyDick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TrumpvMobyDick <\/a>. The source tweets obviously belong to others. I include them for satire and commentary.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become a real fan of\u00a0@MobyDickatSea, a bot-based feed of random quotes from the book. It&#8217;s amazing how well some of these fragments stand up as individual thoughts! After the inauguration of @realDonaldTrump I noticed a pattern&#8230; random juxtaposition of quotes that seemed to provide commentary on the man and his policies. Some of these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2017\/trump-v-moby-dick\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump v Moby-Dick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,29,8],"tags":[408,248,411,412],"class_list":["post-7711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-humor","category-people","tag-literature","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7893,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions\/7893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}