{"id":899,"date":"2004-05-02T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/when_i_say_something_i_mean_it\/"},"modified":"2004-05-02T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2004-05-02T18:16:43","slug":"when_i_say_something_i_mean_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/when_i_say_something_i_mean_it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;When I Say Something, I Mean It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s become of the &#8220;bold,&#8221; optimistic plan for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A57790-2004Apr30.html\">moon station\/mission to Mars<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush unveiled the &#8220;Vision&#8221; in a Jan. 14 speech, promising to &#8220;extend a human presence across our solar system,&#8221; starting with a return to the moon by 2020 and an eventual human spaceflight to Mars.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nDespite charges of election-year grandstanding, Bush appears to have gained nothing politically from the announcement. A Jan. 18 <i>Washington Post<\/i>-ABC News poll found that 62 percent of Americans opposed the plan. <i>Bush has not mentioned it since the speech<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Emphasis added.]<br \/>\nI wonder why that is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/when_i_say_something_i_mean_it\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;When I Say Something, I Mean It&#8221;\"><p>What&#8217;s become of the &#8220;bold,&#8221; optimistic plan for the moon station\/mission to Mars? Bush unveiled the &#8220;Vision&#8221; in a Jan. 14 speech, promising to &#8220;extend a human presence across our solar system,&#8221; starting with a return to the moon by 2020 and an eventual human spaceflight to Mars. . . . Despite charges of election-year [&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-899","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\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}