{"id":4999,"date":"2024-07-14T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","slug":"inch-from-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4999","title":{"rendered":"INCH FROM CHAOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine the chaos which was nearly unleashed on this country (and the world) this evening. If that bullet had been an inch to the right, our timeline would have taken a sharp turn into instability and the unknown, for all of us &#8211; Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight I am thanking God that the shooter failed in his mission and praying for the families of those who died.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What needs to happen is a swift and permanent cooling of the rhetoric on both sides, but I fear this will only inflame it instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The major sentiment I see on X so far from those on the right is that this will cement Trump&#8217;s re-election.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among those who lean left on X, I am seeing the word &#8220;staged&#8221; trending. And a few saying, in effect, &#8220;he brought it on himself&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I doubt this is going to bring much introspection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the chaos which was nearly unleashed on this country (and the world) this evening. If that bullet had been an inch to the right, our timeline would have taken a sharp turn into instability and the unknown, for all of us &#8211; Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike. Tonight I am thanking God that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}