{"id":1268,"date":"2003-06-06T04:51:12","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/06\/that-explains-it\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:35:31","slug":"that-explains-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/06\/that-explains-it\/","title":{"rendered":"That explains it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14459,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0743204735\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0743204735\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14460,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com\\\/2003_06_01_atrios_archive.html#200394453&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080115131330\\\/http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com:80\\\/2003_06_01_atrios_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.eschatonblog.com\\\/2003_06_01_atrios_archive.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 15:26:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 14:25:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-04 14:47:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-04 14:47:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I&#8217;m the commander. See, I don&#8217;t need to explain why I say things. That&#8217;s the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don&#8217;t feel like I owe anybody an explanation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Pres.\u00a0George W. Bush, to Bob Woodward, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743204735\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Bush at War\">Bush at War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_06_01_atrios_archive.html#200394453\" title=\"When pigs fly\">Tresy<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the commander. See, I don&#8217;t need to explain why I say things. That&#8217;s the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don&#8217;t feel like I owe anybody an explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,16],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}