{"id":790,"date":"2002-12-03T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2002-12-03T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/im-not-surprised\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T14:47:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:47:40","slug":"im-not-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/03\/im-not-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15685,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2002_11_24.html#000027&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130117134647\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2002_11_24.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 21:18:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 21:18:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I do not 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>\u2014 Pres. George W. Bush (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2002_11_24.html#000027\" title=\"Like Father, Like Son\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not 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":[16],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}