{"id":1928,"date":"2006-03-23T00:55:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T05:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/clap_louder\/"},"modified":"2006-03-23T00:55:43","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T05:55:43","slug":"clap_louder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/clap_louder\/","title":{"rendered":"Clap Louder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the White House stagecraft machine is operating at full steam.  Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/03\/images\/20060322-3_d-0203-1-515h.html\">a photo<\/a> of President Bush speaking yesterday in West Virginia.  Note   the not one but two large signs proclaiming &#8220;Plan for Victory.&#8221;<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know what the future holds for Iraq.  It&#8217;s conceivable that someday life  there might be better than it once was.  But after the pitfalls of the past three years, can anyone rationally believe that such an outcome would be the result of a  masterful White House &#8220;plan&#8221;?<br \/>\nSadly, many Americans aren&#8217;t too rational these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/clap_louder\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Clap Louder\"><p>Looks like the White House stagecraft machine is operating at full steam. Here&#8217;s a photo of President Bush speaking yesterday in West Virginia. Note the not one but two large signs proclaiming &#8220;Plan for Victory.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what the future holds for Iraq. It&#8217;s conceivable that someday life there might be better than it [&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-1928","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\/1928","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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}