{"id":504,"date":"2003-12-04T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:42:38","slug":"504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/04\/504\/","title":{"rendered":"Glad I Got It For Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest six-columns-for-the-price-of-one, which would also seem to be six-columns-with-the-forethought-of-one, Richard Roeper of the <i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/roeper\/cst-nws-roep02.html\" target=\"new\">spends a little time between the asterisks to ding Bush for not attending soldier funerals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the meantime, our current president Punk&#8217;d the world with his stealth visit to Baghdad last week &#8212; proving that even in this day and age, it&#8217;s possible for POTUS to make a safe, quick visit to almost any event in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sure would like to see President Bush try a similar mission and show up at a memorial service for one of those American soldiers who keep getting killed in Iraq, even though the war is over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, Rick.  <i>You<\/i> pick one.  The <i>single<\/i> soldier to be so honored.  The <i>one<\/i> who&#8217;s more important than the others.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty easy for a newspaper columnist, wot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest six-columns-for-the-price-of-one, which would also seem to be six-columns-with-the-forethought-of-one, Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times spends a little time between the asterisks to ding Bush for not attending soldier funerals: In the meantime, our current president Punk&#8217;d the world with his stealth visit to Baghdad last week &#8212; proving that even in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22292,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/22292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}