{"id":1099,"date":"2004-09-27T18:07:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T22:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/27\/fantasyland\/"},"modified":"2004-09-27T18:07:13","modified_gmt":"2004-09-27T22:07:13","slug":"fantasyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/27\/fantasyland\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasyland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/mission_accomplished_3\"><img class=\"image-full\" alt=\"Mission_accomplished_3\" title=\"Mission_accomplished_3\" src=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/mission_accomplished_3\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nFunny thing is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A52627-2004Sep26.html\">he still believes it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Bill O&#8217;Reilly of Fox News &#8230; asked Bush whether he would still do the carrier landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln beneath the &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; banner. At the time, 16 months ago, Bush referred to Iraq as a &#8220;victory&#8221; and declared an end to major combat there. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; the president replied in the interview, to air on Monday&#8217;s &#8220;O&#8217;Reilly Factor.&#8221; O&#8217;Reilly, apparently surprised, replied, &#8220;You would?&#8221; &#8220;Of course,&#8221; Bush continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m saying to the troops, on this carrier and elsewhere, &#8216;Thanks for serving America.&#8217; Absolutely. And by the way, those sailors and airmen loved seeing the commander in chief. . . . You bet I&#8217;d do it again.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny thing is, he still believes it. &#8230;Bill O&#8217;Reilly of Fox News &#8230; asked Bush whether he would still do the carrier landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln beneath the &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; banner. At the time, 16 months ago, Bush referred to Iraq as a &#8220;victory&#8221; and declared an end to major combat there. &#8220;Absolutely,&#8221;&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/27\/fantasyland\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}