{"id":22499,"date":"2026-06-13T19:49:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T19:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22499"},"modified":"2026-06-13T19:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T19:49:54","slug":"pete-hegseths-workout-video-isnt-aging-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22499","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth&#8217;s Workout Video Isn&#8217;t Aging Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump officials like to show how masculine they are by performing physical feats, but A: performing physical feats is not a substitute for character or competency, and B: they often perform their feats with fake reps where they don&#8217;t go all the way and are not actually working the muscle properly the way the exercise is designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, not only do they emphasize the less important traits, they do so poorly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pete Hegseth&amp;apos;s Workout Video Isn&amp;apos;t Aging Well\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8oIYqHLeyoA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump officials like to show how masculine they are by performing physical feats, but A: performing physical feats is not a substitute for character or competency, and B: they often perform their feats with fake reps where they don&#8217;t go all the way and are not actually working the muscle properly the way the exercise is designed. <\/p>\n<p>So, not only do they emphasize the less important traits, they do so poorly. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8oIYqHLeyoA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,1764,369,2043,2285,170],"class_list":["post-22499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-leaders","tag-male","tag-men","tag-secretary-of-defense","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22500,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22499\/revisions\/22500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}