{"id":709224,"date":"2010-04-05T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81416"},"modified":"2010-04-05T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:24:55","slug":"petraeus-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99ve-been-as-categorical-as-one-could-be%e2%80%99-about-not-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/709224","title":{"rendered":"Petraeus: \u2018I\u2019ve Been as Categorical as One Could Be\u2019 About Not Running for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Ricks gets an interview with Gen. David Petraeus that mostly featured Petraeus attempting to avoid making news. But this was funny:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>[Ricks]:<\/strong> You keep on saying you are not running for president. Why do you think people\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/7549797\/David-Petraeus-for-President-Run-General-run.html\" >seem to believe you are<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Petraeus]: <\/strong>Beats me. I&#8217;ve been as categorical as\u00a0one could be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=petraeus_12\">my own part<\/a> a couple years ago, sorry about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Ricks gets an interview with Gen. David Petraeus that mostly featured Petraeus attempting to avoid making news. But this was funny: [Ricks]: You keep on saying you are not running for president. Why do you think people\u00a0seem to believe you are? [Petraeus]: Beats me. I&#8217;ve been as categorical as\u00a0one could be. For my own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"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-709224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Yv6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709224","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\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}