{"id":188888,"date":"2025-11-09T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=188888"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:00:37","slug":"the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=188888","title":{"rendered":"The Shutdown, Zombie Politics and How Trump Stumbled Into Not Being All-Powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always a complicated matter to say who is \u201cwinning\u201d a shutdown fight. By one measure, no one \u201cwins\u201d since&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always a complicated matter to say who is \u201cwinning\u201d a shutdown fight. By one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful.jpg",804,603,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful.jpg",804,603,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful.jpg",804,603,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful.jpg",804,603,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful-804x575.jpg",804,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188888-the-shutdown-zombie-politics-and-how-trump-stumbled-into-not-being-all-powerful-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}