{"id":544,"date":"2004-01-29T05:40:40","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T10:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/bush_discovers_the_arts\/"},"modified":"2004-01-29T05:40:40","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T10:40:40","slug":"bush_discovers_the_arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/bush_discovers_the_arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Discovers the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/29\/politics\/29BUDG.html?ex=1390712400&#038;en=b421fa4b98b3184c&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Bush Is Said to Seek More Money for Arts<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> President Bush will seek a big increase in the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, the largest single source of support for the arts in the United States, administration officials said on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe proposal is part of a turnaround for the agency, which was once fighting for its life, attacked by some Republicans as a threat to the nation&#8217;s moral standards.<br \/>\nLaura Bush plans to announce the request on Thursday, in remarks intended to show the administration&#8217;s commitment to the arts, aides said.<br \/>\nAdministration officials, including White House budget experts, said that Mr. Bush would propose an increase of $15 million to $20 million for the coming fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. That would be the largest rise in two decades and far more than the most recent increases, about $500,000 for 2003 and $5 million for this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A couple more years of similar increases and Bush will have undone the damage of the 1995 Republican congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/bush_discovers_the_arts\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Bush Discovers the Arts\"><p>&#8220;Bush Is Said to Seek More Money for Arts&#8220;: President Bush will seek a big increase in the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, the largest single source of support for the arts in the United States, administration officials said on Wednesday. The proposal is part of a turnaround for the agency, which [&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-544","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\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}