{"id":10395,"date":"2020-08-05T08:26:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T06:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=10395"},"modified":"2020-08-05T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T07:05:12","slug":"it-is-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=10395","title":{"rendered":"&#8218;It is what it is&#8216;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/04\/donald-trump-interview-axios-covid-19-epstein-john-lewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Swan responded: \u201cHow? A thousand Americans are dying a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are dying. That\u2019s true. And you \u2013 it is what it is,\u201d Trump said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this morning I most recently read the phrase in an article on attitudes towards covid\u201119 at the New Jersey shore. A young man from Pennsylvania explained that months earlier he had been concerned about the virus, but he was now tired of that. &#8222;It is what it is,&#8220; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>On my last visit to the US among relatives there was discussion of The Mueller Report and The Resistance&#x2122; led by Nancy Pelosi. I was curious about thoughts as to political actions other than posting ironic memes on Facebook and waiting until the 2020 election. An older relative, a working man, sagely explained the situation with a wry accommodating smile: &#8222;It is what it is.&#8220; Here was not a sans-culottes explanation of the inevitability of class struggle. This instead was the resignation of the serf, rationalizing the calluses and the painful blisters on his neck as with a practiced hand he shifted the yoke.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10395-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Mimi-Farina-Celebration-at-Big-Sur.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Mimi-Farina-Celebration-at-Big-Sur.ogg\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Mimi-Farina-Celebration-at-Big-Sur.ogg<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Swan responded: \u201cHow? A thousand Americans are dying a day.\u201d \u201cThey are dying. That\u2019s true. And you \u2013 it is what it is,\u201d Trump said. It is what it is. Prior to this morning I most recently read the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=10395\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}