{"id":195429,"date":"2008-07-09T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/09\/bush-speaks-the-truth-promptly-apologizes\/"},"modified":"2008-07-09T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T22:37:00","slug":"bush-speaks-the-truth-promptly-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/09\/bush-speaks-the-truth-promptly-apologizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Speaks the Truth:  Promptly Apologizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that some soon-to-be-unemployed Bush staffer handed out a press info pack on Silvio Berlusconi, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7495754.stm\">used accurate information<\/a> from the Encyclopedia of World Biography.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, it described him as, &#8220;one of the most controversial leaders&#8221; of a country &#8220;known for governmental corruption and vice,&#8221; and &#8220;regarded by many as a political dilettante (amateur) who gained his high office only through use of his considerable influence on the national media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me, I have to clean off my screen now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that some soon-to-be-unemployed Bush staffer handed out a press info pack on Silvio Berlusconi, and used accurate information from the Encyclopedia of World Biography. Among other things, it described him as, &#8220;one of the most controversial leaders&#8221; of a country &#8220;known for governmental corruption and vice,&#8221; and &#8220;regarded by many as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,964,1048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-foreign-relations","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}