{"id":470684,"date":"2010-03-25T10:25:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T14:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80438"},"modified":"2010-03-25T10:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T14:25:46","slug":"petraeus-%e2%80%98i-will-not-ever-run-for-political-office%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/470684","title":{"rendered":"Petraeus: \u2018I Will Not, Ever, Run for Political Office\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Klein <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/25\/petraeus-on-prez-talk-no-means\">has the ultra-Shermanesque statement<\/a> (which cites Sherman!), made in New Hampshire last night by the Centcom commander:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I thought I\u2019d said no about as many ways as I could. I really     do mean no. We have all these artful ways of doing it. I\u2019ve     tried Shermanesque responses, which everybody goes and finds     out what Sherman said was pretty unequivocally no. I\u2019ve done     several different ways. I\u2019ve tried quoting the country song,     \u2018What Part of No Don\u2019t You Understand?\u2019 I mean, I really do     mean that. I feel very privileged to be able to serve our     country. I\u2019m honored to continue to do that as long as I can     contribute, but I will not, ever, run for political office, I     can assure you. And again, we have said that repeatedly and I\u2019m     hoping that people realize at a certain point you say it so     many times that you could never flip, and start your career by     flip-flopping into it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Klein has the ultra-Shermanesque statement (which cites Sherman!), made in New Hampshire last night by the Centcom commander: I thought I\u2019d said no about as many ways as I could. I really do mean no. We have all these artful ways of doing it. I\u2019ve tried Shermanesque responses, which everybody goes and finds out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470684","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}