{"id":1719,"date":"2005-08-03T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T18:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/paid_leave\/"},"modified":"2005-08-03T14:33:46","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T18:33:46","slug":"paid_leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/paid_leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This being president thing is <a title=\"Vacationing Bush Poised to Set a Record\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/08\/02\/AR2005080201703_pf.html\">hard work<\/a>.<br \/>\nHa ha:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Spending time outside of Washington always gives the president a fresh perspective of what&#8217;s on the minds of the American people,&#8221; White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters Friday. &#8220;It&#8217;s a time, really, for him to shed the coat and tie and meet with folks out in the heartland and hear what&#8217;s on their minds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see that Mr. Bush will gain any better perspective regarding what&#8217;s on the minds of the American people at his secure &#8220;ranch&#8221; than he will at the White House.  What is he going to do?  Host public barbecues and mingle with the commoners?<br \/>\nUPDATE:  I&#8217;m glad Mr. Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/04\/politics\/04bush.html?ex=1280808000&#038;en=b191eee0455d280d&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">clarified things<\/a> as he kicked off his month-long vacation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Make no mistake about it, we are at war.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ironically, the person most likely to make that mistake would someone watching our commander-in-chief this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/paid_leave\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Paid Leave\"><p>This being president thing is hard work. Ha ha: &#8220;Spending time outside of Washington always gives the president a fresh perspective of what&#8217;s on the minds of the American people,&#8221; White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters Friday. &#8220;It&#8217;s a time, really, for him to shed the coat and tie and meet with folks [&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-1719","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\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}