{"id":1617,"date":"2005-05-03T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T17:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/approval_rating\/"},"modified":"2005-05-03T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T17:14:42","slug":"approval_rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/approval_rating\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval Ratings Must Be On The Slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&#038;storyID=2005-05-03T065755Z_01_N03315033_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-SECURITY-CHENEY-DC.XML\">talk terror<\/a> again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al Qaeda is still &#8220;very active&#8221; recruiting and seeking to attack the United States, although it has been hurt since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday.<br \/>\n&#8220;The enemy that appeared on 9\/11 is wounded and off-balance, and on the run &#8212; yet still very active, still seeking recruits, and still trying to find ways to hit us,&#8221; said Cheney, who reviews intelligence on threats daily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting how little we heard about Al Qaeda in the months immediately following the election.  But I guess that&#8217;s one of the neat things about having an invisible enemy: if you don&#8217;t talk about it for a while, people will forget about it; then you can whip it out again whenever you want to change the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/approval_rating\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Approval Ratings Must Be On The Slide\"><p>Time to talk terror again: Al Qaeda is still &#8220;very active&#8221; recruiting and seeking to attack the United States, although it has been hurt since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday. &#8220;The enemy that appeared on 9\/11 is wounded and off-balance, and on the run &#8212; yet still [&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-1617","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\/1617","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=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}