{"id":3554,"date":"2016-11-13T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T09:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2016-11-13T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T09:53:15","slug":"presidential-security-fairly-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3554\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Security: Fairly Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/11\/11\/assassination-threats-against-trump-flood-twitter-after-election-shocker\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a>, Twitter has seen a lot of assassination threats against Trump since his winning the election last week.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside the fact that the number of threats on Twitter result in a calculator error when divided by those that are credible, I don&#8217;t think people have the slightest idea how tight security is around an American President these days. \u00a0People probably think it&#8217;s as simple as pulling a security guard&#8217;s gun like that idiot Brit did at a Trump rally some months back, but security around the US President is ramped up to somewhere around 13 on a scale of 1 to 10.<\/p>\n<p>Before Barack Obama was elected everyone assumed any black president would be assassinated by a deranged, racist redneck. \u00a0Then Obama was elected and people assumed he would be assassinated by possibly the same deranged, racist redneck. \u00a0Or his brother-stroke-father. \u00a0I am of the opinion Obama wasn&#8217;t assassinated because his political opponents are not murderous hicks, but it would have been extraordinarily difficult to pull off anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Give it another few weeks and rubbish like this will have died down and we&#8217;ll never hear of it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Post, Twitter has seen a lot of assassination threats against Trump since his winning the election last week. Leaving aside the fact that the number of threats on Twitter result in a calculator error when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3554\/\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}