{"id":2637,"date":"2006-11-29T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2006-11-29T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T13:29:00","slug":"reality-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/11\/29\/09\/29\/reality-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/28\/AR2006112801582.html?nav=rss_email\/components?nav=slate\">At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia&#8217;s newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his picture taken with the man he had often criticized on the stump this fall. But it wasn&#8217;t long before Bush found him. &#8220;How&#8217;s your boy?&#8221; Bush asked, referring to Webb&#8217;s son, a Marine serving in Iraq. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President,&#8221; Webb responded, echoing a campaign theme. &#8220;That&#8217;s not what I asked you,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;How&#8217;s your boy?&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s between me and my boy, Mr. President,&#8221; Webb said coldly.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia&#8217;s newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}