{"id":1442,"date":"2005-01-26T23:32:43","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T04:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/moving_the_goalposts\/"},"modified":"2005-01-26T23:32:43","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T04:32:43","slug":"moving_the_goalposts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/moving_the_goalposts\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving The Goalposts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/01\/20050126-3.html\">this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Millions of Iraqi voters will show their bravery, their love of country, and their desire to live in freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/news\/archive\/2005\/01\/26\/international1620EST0710.DTL\">later<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know thousands and thousands of Iraqis want to vote. I know they cherish the idea of being able to vote, and I hope as many Iraqis vote as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  &#8220;Millions&#8221; to &#8220;thousands&#8221; of voters in just a few hours.  By the end of the week we&#8217;ll be hearing how remarkable it is merely for someone to set out the ballot box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/moving_the_goalposts\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Moving The Goalposts\"><p>President Bush, this morning: Millions of Iraqi voters will show their bravery, their love of country, and their desire to live in freedom. Then later: I know thousands and thousands of Iraqis want to vote. I know they cherish the idea of being able to vote, and I hope as many Iraqis vote as possible. [&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-1442","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\/1442","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=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}