{"id":561,"date":"2004-03-08T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T17:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/03\/obsessed_in_the_white_house\/"},"modified":"2004-03-08T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T17:37:49","slug":"obsessed_in_the_white_house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/03\/obsessed_in_the_white_house.html","title":{"rendered":"OBSESSED IN THE WHITE HOUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our famously disengaged Maximum Leader may be a know-nothing statesman, but when it comes<br \/>\nto getting elected, Elisabeth Bumiller reports, &#8220;Friends who have talked with the president in<br \/>\nrecent weeks say he is&nbsp;<A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/08\/politics\/08LETT.html\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>consumed by the campaign<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, the polls and Mr. Kerry.&#8221;<br \/>\nWith all due respect for the office&nbsp;Bush holds but none for the office-holder and his<br \/>\nobsession, let him consume this: <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/webmasterkai\/kaicurry\/gwbush\/dishonestdubya.html\"><B><EM\n><FONT color=#003399>The Dishonest Dubya Lying Action Figure<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>.<br \/>\nA reader writes: &#8220;It&#8217;s the funniest&nbsp; thing I&#8217;ve seen since the last Bush interview.&#8221; Have fun<br \/>\nwith it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our famously disengaged Maximum Leader may be a know-nothing statesman, but when it comes to getting elected, Elisabeth Bumiller reports, &#8220;Friends who have talked with the president in recent weeks say he is&nbsp;consumed by the campaign, the polls and Mr. Kerry.&#8221; With all due respect for the office&nbsp;Bush holds but none for the office-holder and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-93","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}