{"id":664873,"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.com\/index\/664873","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":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MXL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}