{"id":865,"date":"2004-04-16T13:56:49","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/buck_stops_here\/"},"modified":"2004-04-16T13:56:49","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T17:56:49","slug":"buck_stops_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/buck_stops_here\/","title":{"rendered":"Buck Stops Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which recent president said the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I do not believe, therefore, that the local commanders on the ground, men who have already suffered quite enough, should be punished for not fully comprehending the nature of today&#8217;s terrorist threat. If there is to be blame, it properly rests here in this Office and with this President. And <i>I accept responsibility for the bad<\/i> as well as the good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Emphasis added.]<br \/>\nWas it:<br \/>\n(A) Ronald Reagan<br \/>\n(B) Bill Clinton<br \/>\n(C) George W. Bush<br \/>\nAnswer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reagan.utexas.edu\/resource\/speeches\/1983\/122783a.htm\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nQuite a contrast with the here and now, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/buck_stops_here\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Buck Stops Here\"><p>Which recent president said the following: I do not believe, therefore, that the local commanders on the ground, men who have already suffered quite enough, should be punished for not fully comprehending the nature of today&#8217;s terrorist threat. If there is to be blame, it properly rests here in this Office and with this President. [&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-865","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\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}