{"id":10152,"date":"2024-07-24T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=10152"},"modified":"2024-07-23T09:36:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T13:36:06","slug":"reality-tv-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2024\/07\/24\/reality-tv-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This risk of a reality TV star being President is you get what they know: drama every day about obviously bad decisions that could have been avoided with a modicum of thought before executing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I feel like the government works well when it is doing what it needs to do without causing drama. The news media lives in the new<\/a>. They love drama, so I can see why they favor such a president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But, I am a technocrat. When I see stories about governmental accomplishments, I notice the amount of effort that went into it and appreciate when it was quiet, efficient, and effective. Of course, I prefer it when my boss and peers are the only ones who know what I did because… it was done well. It’s not a story. Making local headlines and God forbid national ones is a failure on my part. Being on a first-name basis with our spokesperson feels like failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want a quiet president who gets things done because they are necessary not because they make headlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This risk of a reality TV star being President is you get what they know: drama every day about obviously bad decisions that could have been avoided with a modicum of thought before executing them. Personally, I feel like the government works well when it is doing what it needs to do without causing drama. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[1435,3726,3215,3538],"class_list":["post-10152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-news-politics","tag-news-media","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-technocrat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2DK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}