{"id":197,"date":"2006-05-07T10:55:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T15:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/197"},"modified":"2006-05-07T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T15:55:22","slug":"remind-us-again-georgewhy-did-you-want-to-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/197","title":{"rendered":"Remind Us Again George&#8230;Why Did You Want To Be President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petulant George tells a German newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&amp;storyID=2006-05-07T100113Z_01_L07638085_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BUSH-FISH.xml&amp;archived=False\">what his best moment in office was<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President George W. Bush told a German newspaper his best moment in more than five years in office was catching a big perch in his own lake.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You know, I&#8217;ve experienced many great moments and it&#8217;s hard to name the best,&quot; Bush told weekly Bild am Sonntag when asked about his high point since becoming president in January 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake,&quot; he told the newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Bush said the worst moment was September 11 when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep&#8230;sitting in your boat catching perch on your lake has just about got to be the best part of presidenting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petulant George tells a German newspaper what his best moment in office was&#8230; BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President George W. Bush told a German newspaper his best moment in more than five years in office was catching a big perch in his own lake. &quot;You know, I&#8217;ve experienced many great moments and it&#8217;s hard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tales-of-the-smirk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}