{"id":1516,"date":"2005-03-01T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T17:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/follow_the_logic\/"},"modified":"2005-03-01T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T17:56:35","slug":"follow_the_logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/follow_the_logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some guy at Blogs For Bush notes that U.S. life expectancy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/HEALTH\/conditions\/02\/28\/life.expectancy.reut\/index.html\">hit a record in 2003<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe <a title=\"We're All Gonna Live!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsforbush.com\/mt\/archives\/003827.html\">logical conclusion<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Guess what? If we&#8217;re living longer it means that life is getting better. Got that? Better. Things are <i>better<\/i> than they were before &#8211; &#8220;before&#8221;, in this case, being before President Bush took office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing, isn&#8217;t it?  After two short years President Bush was able to not only (1) decrease heart disease, cancer, and stroke fatalities, but he also (2) made everyone&#8217;s life &#8220;better&#8221; than it was in 2000.<br \/>\nSometimes I just don&#8217;t give that guy enough credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/follow_the_logic\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Follow The Logic\"><p>Some guy at Blogs For Bush notes that U.S. life expectancy hit a record in 2003. The logical conclusion? Guess what? If we&#8217;re living longer it means that life is getting better. Got that? Better. Things are better than they were before &#8211; &#8220;before&#8221;, in this case, being before President Bush took office. Amazing, isn&#8217;t [&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-1516","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\/1516","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=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}