{"id":1524,"date":"2016-07-12T21:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T01:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2016-07-11T21:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T01:45:46","slug":"mark-singer-on-donald-trump-unmolested-by-the-rumbling-of-a-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"Mark Singer on Donald Trump: Unmolested by the rumbling of a soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mark_singer.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Singer\" width=\"284\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who is Donald Trump?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Singer unsuccessfully (he says) sought the answer to this question in 1997 when assigned to write a profile for <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. His conclusion, that Trump\u00a0\u201chad aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul\u201d started a two-decade long feud with Trump\u00a0and ultimately led to the publication of Singer&#8217;s\u00a0latest book,\u00a0<em>Trump and Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1953\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1524-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Craft-2016-7-7_MarkSinger.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Craft-2016-7-7_MarkSinger.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Craft-2016-7-7_MarkSinger.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Craft-2016-7-7_MarkSinger.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1524-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Craft-2016-7-7_MarkSinger.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft-2016-7-7_MarkSinger.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who is Donald Trump?&#8221; Mark Singer unsuccessfully (he says) sought the answer to this question in 1997 when assigned to write a profile for The New Yorker. His conclusion, that Trump\u00a0\u201chad aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1524\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[364,365,366],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-original-craft-productions","tag-donald-trump","tag-mark-singer","tag-the-new-yorker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}