{"id":1989,"date":"2003-09-17T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2021-05-26T00:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T04:43:18","slug":"and-then-there-were-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/09\/17\/and-then-there-were-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"And Then There Were Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I was impressed with General Wesley Clark&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalclark.com\/#Real Time with Bill Maher - HBO - September 5, 2003\" title=\"Go on, download it. It's only 94 megabytes!\">appearance<\/a> on last week&#8217;s <i>Real Time with Bill Maher<\/i>. Since Clark announced his candidacy on Tuesday, I&#8217;ve been trying to read more about him. All of this is simply prelude to my saying I particularly enjoyed these two sentences in the <i>Sydney Morning Herald<\/i>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/09\/17\/1063625096243.html\" title=\"Link to \u201cWesley Clark adds grunt to fight against Bush\u201d\">article<\/a>:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;<I>But he also earned a reputation in the military as someone who did not suffer fools gladly. His critics say he will find the transition to politics very difficult.<\/I>&#8221;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Update<\/b>: I just read Clark&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wesleyclarkweblog.com\/archives\/000365.html#more\" title=\"An unofficial transcript\">announcement speech<\/a>. He actually said \u201cfor my family and <i>me<\/i>\u201d!!! Can you believe it? Hell, that alone is almost enough to get my vote.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; If he also knows how to spell \u201cled\u201d and says \u201cthere are\u201d instead of \u201cthere\u2019s\u201d then I will worship him as a God.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I was impressed with General Wesley Clark&#8217;s appearance on last week&#8217;s Real Time with Bill Maher. Since Clark announced his candidacy on Tuesday, I&#8217;ve been trying to read more about him. All of this is simply prelude to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/09\/17\/and-then-there-were-ten\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}