{"id":1430,"date":"2004-09-03T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T20:28:02","slug":"1430","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/03\/1430\/","title":{"rendered":"PachyBlogging Day<sub>4<\/sub>, Part LVIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Bush: Summation.<\/p>\n<p>Was it the speech of his life?  I don&#8217;t know.  I haven&#8217;t seen them all.<\/p>\n<p>He covered all the bases: foreign policy, domestic policy, past, present, future; himself, with perspective and humor, and his office.  He knows the Republicans in the hall and in the nation don&#8217;t agree with everything he says and does, but he hopes you respect him for his principles and for his ability to stick to them.<\/p>\n<p>I do, Mr. President, I do.<\/p>\n<p>I would say &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/142\/193.html\" target=\"_new\">O Captain, my Captain<\/a>,&#8221; but:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not a Whitman fan.\n<li>I&#8217;m afraid a lot of people would think it was an allusion to <i>Dead Poets&#8217; Society<\/i>.\n<li>This is no occasion for an elegy; I hope our journey has only reached the midway point.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Bush: Summation. Was it the speech of his life? I don&#8217;t know. I haven&#8217;t seen them all. He covered all the bases: foreign policy, domestic policy, past, present, future; himself, with perspective and humor, and his office. He knows the Republicans in the hall and in the nation don&#8217;t agree with everything he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21135,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/21135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}