{"id":323537,"date":"2010-02-12T19:08:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011060208_bushbillboard.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-12T19:08:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:08:57","slug":"bush-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323537","title":{"rendered":"Bush billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frankly, don\u2019t miss you George<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I see some FOB (Friend of Bush) has sponsored a billboard with a smiling George Bush and the saying \u201cMiss me yet?\u201d [\u201cJust asking,\u201d Newsline, Feb. 11].<\/p>\n<p>My personal response is that I don\u2019t miss him in the least \u2014 not even for his many laughable lines. What I do miss is the money we have poured into the unnecessary Iraq war and the American youth squandered there.<\/p>\n<p>What I do miss is the budget surplus in place when he took office and the taxes we used to be able to collect from his rich friends. What I do miss is the sense of honor I used to feel about the way we treat our friends \u2014 as equals deserving of consultation and cooperation \u2014 and our enemies, before we authorized torture in dealing with them.<\/p>\n<p>But George Bush? I ain\u2019t missing him at all.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Jack McClurg, Marysville<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, don\u2019t miss you George I see some FOB (Friend of Bush) has sponsored a billboard with a smiling George Bush and the saying \u201cMiss me yet?\u201d [\u201cJust asking,\u201d Newsline, Feb. 11]. My personal response is that I don\u2019t miss him in the least \u2014 not even for his many laughable lines. What I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}