{"id":171,"date":"2008-05-16T01:17:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T08:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/171"},"modified":"2009-10-03T00:25:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T07:25:35","slug":"no-greater-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/no-greater-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"No greater sacrifice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"163\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bush_golf1.JPG\" alt=\"Shit for brains\" height=\"234\" style=\"width: 163px; height: 234px\" class=\"floatleft\" \/>So, we learned this week that\u00c2\u00a0our sorry excuse for a president gave up golfing in 2003 &#8220;in solidarity&#8221; with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it was &#8220;just not worth it anymore&#8221; to play the sport in a time of war.<\/p>\n<p id=\"body_after_content_column\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,&#8221; Bush said in a White House interview with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0508\/10316_Page4.html\">Politico<\/a>. &#8220;I feel I owe it to the families to be as &#8212; to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s his idea of sacrifice, to give up golf?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This man is a shallow moron.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we learned this week that\u00c2\u00a0our sorry excuse for a president gave up golfing in 2003 &#8220;in solidarity&#8221; with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it was &#8220;just not worth it anymore&#8221; to play the sport in a time of war. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want some mom whose son may have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/no-greater-sacrifice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No greater sacrifice&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}