{"id":1817,"date":"2003-10-05T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/05\/poet-laureategeorge-bush\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:26:00","slug":"poet-laureategeorge-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/05\/poet-laureategeorge-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Laureate&#8230;George Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13171,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/ALLPOLITICS\\\/10\\\/03\\\/bush.poem.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/ALLPOLITICS\\\/10\\\/03\\\/bush.poem.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13172,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.incunabula.org\\\/blog\\\/archive\\\/2003_10_05_index.html#106541115349858236&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081203185021\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.incunabula.org\\\/blog\\\/archive\\\/2003_10_05_index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:19:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:19:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Did you know that our President is a poet? Neither did I &#8212; thankfully, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/10\/03\/bush.poem.ap\/index.html\" title=\"President Bush pens a poem\">CNN gives us a taste of his lyrical genius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Roses are red<br \/>\n  Violets are blue<br \/>\n  Oh my, lump in the bed<br \/>\n  How I&#8217;ve missed you.<br \/>\n  Roses are redder<br \/>\n  Bluer am I<br \/>\n  Seeing you kissed by that charming French guy.<br \/>\n  The dogs and the cat, they missed you too<br \/>\n  Barney&#8217;s still mad you dropped him, he ate your shoe<br \/>\n  The distance, my dear, has been such a barrier<br \/>\n  Next time you want an adventure, just land on a carrier.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incunabula.org\/blog\/archive\/2003_10_05_index.html#106541115349858236\" title=\"s*T*a*R*e: President Bush pens a poem\">s<em>T<\/em>a<em>R<\/em>e<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that our President is a poet? Neither did I &mdash; thankfully, CNN gives us a taste of his lyrical genius.<\/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],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","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=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}