{"id":536,"date":"2005-05-17T10:43:50","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2005\/05\/obvious_yet_predictable\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T10:43:50","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T14:43:50","slug":"obvious_yet_predictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2005\/05\/obvious_yet_predictable\/","title":{"rendered":"OBVIOUS YET PREDICTABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From David Corn in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/theblog\/archive\/david-corn\/why-mcclellan-should-stee_1056.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;Yes, we all know how much McClellan and the White House are addicted to truth and honesty&#8211;especially when it comes to the war on terrorism. Seems to me that with a few slight amendments McClellan&#8217;s remark might also apply to another institution that got an even bigger story wrong:<BR><BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s puzzling that while Bush and the White House now acknowledge that they got the facts wrong, they refused to retract the war. I think there&#8217;s a certain presidential standard that should be met and in this instance it was not.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><BR><BR><br \/>\n<B><br \/>\nBORED?<br \/>\n<\/B><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/plus\/50-ways-ipod\/\" target=\"_blank\">50 iPod Uses<\/A><br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<B><br \/>\nCAN LUCAS EVEN SPELL ALLEGORY?<br \/>\n<\/B><BR><BR>My 7-year-old is dragging me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/linkset\/2005\/04\/11\/LI2005041100879.html?nav=pq\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/A>. But I&#8217;m betting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printables\/critics\/050523crci_cinema\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/A> gives more pleasure. Even QUOTE OF THE MONTH: &#8220;Break me a fucking give&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From David Corn in Huffington: &#8230;Yes, we all know how much McClellan and the White House are addicted to truth and honesty&#8211;especially when it comes to the war on terrorism. Seems to me that with a few slight amendments McClellan&#8217;s remark might also apply to another institution that got an even bigger story wrong: &#8220;It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}