{"id":1776,"date":"2003-09-25T11:58:57","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T01:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/25\/love-natalie\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:27:06","slug":"love-natalie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/25\/love-natalie\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, Natalie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13245,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/dixiechicks.stage.launch.yahoo.com\\\/news.asp?id=57&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13246,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com\\\/2003_09_21_atrios_archive.html#106451743247488739&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20071029122856\\\/http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com:80\\\/2003_09_21_atrios_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 08:31:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 19:13:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 02:38:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 02:38:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A definite must-read: a <a href=\"http:\/\/dixiechicks.stage.launch.yahoo.com\/news.asp?id=57\" title=\"Letter from Natalie\">letter from Natalie of the Dixie Chicks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Dear Reader:<\/p>\n<p>  I am taking the time out of my very busy rock and roll life to write you this letter. As I am sure you can understand, being me is a full time job. I can&#8217;t just drop everything every three days because someone needs a quote or statement about a quote or statement we may or may not have said. It&#8217;s just draining me of time and effort I need to put toward other things. For one, I as a taxpayer have to get busy earning money to help pay off the latest \\$87 billion dollar addition to the national debt! Also, I have a huge list of phone calls to return.<\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;ll list a few just so you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>  Message 1: Saddam Hussein called and wants to know where his weapons of mass destruction are. Listen Saddam, I already told you, I don&#8217;t know. You&#8217;re going to have to call the White House on that one.<\/p>\n<p>  Message 2: Country radio called and wants to know if it&#8217;s true that you&#8217;re leaving country music? This one must be a prank call. I mean, how can you leave a party now when the hosts had shown you to the door six months ago.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_09_21_atrios_archive.html#106451743247488739\" title=\"A letter from a Dixie Chick\">Atrios<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saddam Hussein called and wants to know where his weapons of mass destruction are. Listen Saddam, I already told you, I don&#8217;t know. You\u2019re going to have to call the White House on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035,2042],"tags":[2409,80,14],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics","tag-dixie-chicks","tag-music","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}