{"id":7048,"date":"2017-06-08T00:33:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2017-06-01T11:37:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:37:28","slug":"7048","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7048","title":{"rendered":"THE LONELINESS OF DONALD TRUMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We gain awareness of ourselves and others from setbacks and difficulties; we get used to a world that is not always about us; and those who do not have to cope with that are brittle, weak, unable to endure contradiction, convinced of the necessity of always having one\u2019s own way. The rich kids I met in college were flailing as though they wanted to find walls around them, leapt as though they wanted there to be gravity and to hit ground, even bottom, but parents and privilege kept throwing out safety nets and buffers, kept padding the walls and picking up the pieces, so that all their acts were meaningless, literally inconsequential. They floated like astronauts in outer space.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Solnit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The rest is here (HT: My sister Lisa)<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ko30LLg7jC\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump\/\">Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of &lt;br&gt;Donald Trump&#8221; &#8212; Literary  Hub\" src=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump\/embed\/#?secret=NcM6vnBJNB#?secret=ko30LLg7jC\" data-secret=\"ko30LLg7jC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We gain awareness of ourselves and others from setbacks and difficulties; we get used to a world that is not always about us; and those who do not have to cope with that are brittle, weak, unable to endure contradiction, convinced of the necessity of always having one\u2019s own way. The rich kids I met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,90,87,10,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambition","category-character","category-friendship","category-sin","category-speech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7052,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}