{"id":1730,"date":"2005-08-16T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T13:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/worry_wart\/"},"modified":"2005-08-16T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T13:14:45","slug":"worry_wart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/worry_wart\/","title":{"rendered":"Worry Wart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The less enlightened among us might be lead to believe that President Bush&#8217;s refusal to spend 5 minutes listening to Cindy Sheehan is a symptom of indifference.  How quickly <a title=\"President Hosts United States - European Union Summit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/06\/20050620-19.html\">we forget<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And so, you know, I think about this every day, every single day, and will continue thinking about it, because I understand we&#8217;ve got kids in harm&#8217;s way. And I worry about their families; and I obviously, any time there&#8217;s a death, I grieve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may appear to you and I that Mr. Bush is spending his days fishing, biking, and attending fund raisers.  What we don&#8217;t see is that on the inside, our leader is grieving.  He just finds it more compassionate to keep his feelings within, rather than sharing them with mourning relatives camped a mile away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/worry_wart\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Worry Wart\"><p>The less enlightened among us might be lead to believe that President Bush&#8217;s refusal to spend 5 minutes listening to Cindy Sheehan is a symptom of indifference. How quickly we forget: And so, you know, I think about this every day, every single day, and will continue thinking about it, because I understand we&#8217;ve got [&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-1730","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\/1730","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=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}