{"id":2316,"date":"2008-06-12T11:35:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/people_need_sum\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:35:27","slug":"people_need_sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/06\/people_need_sum\/","title":{"rendered":"People Need Summer Vacations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t checked the presidential candidate&#8217;s schedules, but I hope Senators Obama and McCain are planning to take vacations this summer&#8211;preferably at the same time.  And I&#8217;m not just talking about a long Fourth of July weekend, I mean like three weeks.  If our current president can do it, these guys can do it too.<br \/>\nIt will be good for them to kick back, reflect on where they want to take the country, and work on policy rather than giving speeches on it.<br \/>\nJust as important, it will give me a break from watching the TV news talking heads parse everything Obama\/McCain said that day, supplemented with dueling campaign press releases.<br \/>\nThat alone would make it worth it.  And most voters probably wouldn&#8217;t even notice they were missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/06\/people_need_sum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to People Need Summer Vacations\"><p>I haven&#8217;t checked the presidential candidate&#8217;s schedules, but I hope Senators Obama and McCain are planning to take vacations this summer&#8211;preferably at the same time. And I&#8217;m not just talking about a long Fourth of July weekend, I mean like three weeks. If our current president can do it, these guys can do it too. [&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-2316","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\/2316","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=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}