{"id":337,"date":"2003-10-07T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=337"},"modified":"2003-10-07T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T12:05:34","slug":"ignorance-is-bliss-for-him-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/10\/07\/ignorance-is-bliss-for-him-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Is Bliss (for him, at least)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"CNN.com - Bush 'not paying attention' to Democratic race - Sep. 23, 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/09\/23\/elec04.prez.bush.interview.ap\/\">Bush &#8216;not paying attention&#8217; to Democratic race<\/a><br \/>\nAssociated Press<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush said he insulates himself from the &#8220;opinions&#8221; that seep into news coverage by getting his news from his own aides. He said he scans headlines, but rarely reads news stories. &#8220;I appreciate people&#8217;s opinions, but I&#8217;m more interested in news,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;And the best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what&#8217;s happening in the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"italic\">Found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/03\/10\/frozen-caveman-president\">Kottke<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush &#8216;not paying attention&#8217; to Democratic race Associated Press Bush said he insulates himself from the &#8220;opinions&#8221; that seep into news coverage by getting his news from his own aides. He said he scans headlines, but rarely reads news stories. &#8220;I appreciate people&#8217;s opinions, but I&#8217;m more interested in news,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;And the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/10\/07\/ignorance-is-bliss-for-him-at-least\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ignorance Is Bliss (for him, at least)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-policy-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-5r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}