{"id":11667,"date":"2020-08-20T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11667"},"modified":"2020-08-20T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:27:12","slug":"the-great-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11667","title":{"rendered":"The Great Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11668\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Great-Wave-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Great-Wave-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Great-Wave-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Great-Wave-1920x1291.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Great-Wave-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Great-Wave-1536x1032.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Great-Wave-2048x1377.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In May 2018, in Bayreuth, an American acquaintance asked me my thoughts on the possibility of a <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Blue Wave<\/span>\u00a0in the <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">November 2018<\/span> elections. The <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Blue Wave<\/span> would return control of the Senate to The Democrats, to the Good People, and Americans would be saved from the ravages of Trump (shudder). I said I saw no reason to think anything like such a wave was likely to occur. &#8222;So you&#8217;re not optimistic?&#8220; she asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2018, in Bayreuth, an American acquaintance asked me my thoughts on the possibility of a Blue Wave\u00a0in the November 2018 elections. The Blue Wave would return control of the Senate to The Democrats, to the Good People, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11667\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}