{"id":2728,"date":"2004-08-05T16:27:24","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T06:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/05\/somehow-im-not-surprised\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:46:10","slug":"somehow-im-not-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/05\/somehow-im-not-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Somehow, I&#8217;m not surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10430,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/news\\\/releases\\\/2004\\\/08\\\/20040805-3.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/news\\\/releases\\\/2004\\\/08\\\/20040805-3.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10431,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com\\\/2004\\\/08\\\/bush-today.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050301000947\\\/http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com:80\\\/2004\\\/08\\\/bush-today.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 04:59:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 10:06:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 10:06:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10432,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.google.com\\\/news?q=%22new+ways+to+harm+our+country+and+our+people%22&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;c2coff=1&amp;safe=off&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=nn&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/news.google.com\\\/news?q=%22new+ways+to+harm+our+country+and+our+people%22&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/08\/20040805-3.html\" title=\"President Signs Defense Bill\">George W. Bush<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/bush-today.html\" title=\"Bush Today\">Atrios<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=%22new+ways+to+harm+our+country+and+our+people%22&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;c2coff=1&amp;safe=off&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=nn\" title=\"Google News search\">a lot of other people<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Daimoku&#8221; by Faithless from the album <em>Reperspective<\/em> (2002, 4:11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.<\/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":[6,14],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","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=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}