{"id":1930,"date":"2009-01-13T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2009-01-13T21:40:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T02:40:14","slug":"one-last-encore-for-the-potemkin-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1930","title":{"rendered":"One last encore for the Potemkin Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/01\/13\/milbank-bush-press\/\">Truly Pathetic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"clear: both\">\n<p>The White House had high expectations for yesterday\u2019s final, historic news conference. \u201cONE CORRESPONDENT PER ORGANIZATION,\u201d proclaimed the bulletin sent to reporters. \u201cSTANDING ROOM ONLY FOR NON-SEAT HOLDERS.\u201d <strong>But when the appointed hour of 9:15 a.m. arrived, the last two rows in the seven-row briefing room were empty, and a press aide told White House interns to fill those seats<\/strong>. (Emphasis in original)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Not with a bang but a whimper. (And let us be thankful for that)<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truly Pathetic: The White House had high expectations for yesterday\u2019s final, historic news conference. \u201cONE CORRESPONDENT PER ORGANIZATION,\u201d proclaimed the bulletin sent to reporters. \u201cSTANDING ROOM ONLY FOR NON-SEAT HOLDERS.\u201d But when the appointed hour of 9:15 a.m. arrived, the last two rows in the seven-row briefing room were empty, and a press aide told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}