{"id":1560,"date":"2004-02-22T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T17:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/22\/dont_ask_wont_t\/"},"modified":"2004-02-22T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2004-02-22T17:35:30","slug":"dont_ask_wont_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/22\/dont_ask_wont_t\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Ask, Won\u2019t Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers have a cardinal rule:  Don\u2019t ask witnesses on the stand questions that you don\u2019t know the answers to.  The Dems might follow that advice regarding Bush\u2019s National Guard service.  Today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A60817-2004Feb21.html\">story<\/a> in The Post pretty much exonerates him, or at least reporter Josh White didn\u2019t quote any credible skeptics.  If the Dems keep suggesting Bush was AWOL and he comes up with irrefutable proof late in the campaign, their credibility is damaged.  Quiet research is the better strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers have a cardinal rule: Don\u2019t ask witnesses on the stand questions that you don\u2019t know the answers to. The Dems might follow that advice regarding Bush\u2019s National Guard service. Today\u2019s story in The Post pretty much exonerates him, or at least reporter Josh White didn\u2019t quote any credible skeptics. If the Dems keep suggesting&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/22\/dont_ask_wont_t\/\">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\/1560"}],"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=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}