{"id":118,"date":"2003-01-29T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2003-01-29T10:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=118"},"modified":"2003-01-29T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2003-01-29T10:24:36","slug":"on-the-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/118","title":{"rendered":"On the State of the Union."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, $1.2B for alternative energy research is at least a concession to all of us out here hollering for an alternative attack on our dependency on Iraq.  However, note he didn&#8217;t say anything truly ambitious, like the old &#8220;man on the moon&#8221; approach.  While he could have said something ambitious and exciting, such as &#8220;By 2010 every new car in America will be powered by an alternative fuel source, and all of our oil needs will be met by domestic sources&#8221;.  Wouldn&#8217;t that have been the cat&#8217;s pajamas?  Probably utterly undoable, but what the hey.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Where&#8217;s the fire from the Democrats?  Where&#8217;s the American spirit?  We are lackluster, tired, weak.  If we go to war with this attitude, we will lose &#150; the same way we lost Vietnam.  No home support = no drive = lost war = lost face = bad juju.  If we have to go to war, let&#8217;s hope that Bush manages to produce some real smoking guns next week to really prove his case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, $1.2B for alternative energy research is at least a concession to all of us out here hollering for an alternative attack on our dependency on Iraq. However, note he didn&#8217;t say anything truly ambitious, like the old &#8220;man on the moon&#8221; approach. While he could have said something ambitious and exciting, such as &#8220;By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-1U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}