{"id":1373,"date":"2005-01-03T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T15:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/feeling_their_pain\/"},"modified":"2005-01-03T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T15:54:04","slug":"feeling_their_pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/feeling_their_pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Their Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being AWOL for days, President Bush&#8217;s speech writers and handlers are finally responding to the tsunami disaster and firing up the teleprompter.  Bush could have gotten out there and said the same things a week ago, but I guess he had to balance the demands of one of the greatest natural disasters ever versus his overgrown brush.<br \/>\nAnyway, it was pretty funny to see him <a title=\"Elder Bush, Clinton to Lead Relief Effort\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/story\/0,1280,-4708076,00.html\">standing with President Clinton today<\/a>, after the official excuse makers took a shot at Clinton last week when explaining why Bush had disappeared.  It looked like Clinton appreciated the irony of the moment as he stood there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/feeling_their_pain\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Feeling Their Pain\"><p>After being AWOL for days, President Bush&#8217;s speech writers and handlers are finally responding to the tsunami disaster and firing up the teleprompter. Bush could have gotten out there and said the same things a week ago, but I guess he had to balance the demands of one of the greatest natural disasters ever versus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}