{"id":671,"date":"2006-01-01T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T02:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=671"},"modified":"2006-01-01T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T02:16:12","slug":"on-the-president-and-his-vacations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"On the President and His Vacations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now official&#8211;the President has spent a full 365 days out of his not-quite five years as leader of the Free World on vacation, clearing brush off his Texas ranch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/12\/30\/AR2005123001326.html\">This article from the Washington Post<\/a> passes no judgment on the President&#8217;s hobbies, but the question needs to be asked&#8211;aren&#8217;t there better, more important things the President should be doing with his time?  Like governing the nation?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if the President thinks that laws aren&#8217;t important, then it&#8217;s not that far a leap for him to say that governing the country isn&#8217;t that important, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now official&#8211;the President has spent a full 365 days out of his not-quite five years as leader of the Free World on vacation, clearing brush off his Texas ranch. This article from the Washington Post passes no judgment on the President&#8217;s hobbies, but the question needs to be asked&#8211;aren&#8217;t there better, more important things<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=671\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the President and His Vacations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273,4108,1039],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-politics","tag-vacation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}