{"id":10471,"date":"2007-04-10T15:40:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T19:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10471.html"},"modified":"2007-04-10T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T19:40:54","slug":"running-a-country-is-no-fun-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/running-a-country-is-no-fun-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Running a country is no fun at all&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=9471093\">Morning Edition<\/a> on NPR:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the morning that kids were invited to the White House for the Easter egg roll. The roll for Laura Bush includes reading a children&#8217;s book. It&#8217;s called, &#8220;Duck for President.&#8221; The first lady will read the story of a duck who takes over the farm, then runs for governor, and then runs for the White House. He wins after a recount, but Duck gives it all up to go back to the farm. The duck concludes, &#8220;Running a country is no fun at all.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsays.com\/content\/book.cfm?tab=4&#038;pid=424363&#038;agid=4\">book&#8217;s publisher<\/a>, &#8220;President Duck,&#8221; who didn&#8217;t realize being president would require a lot of &#8220;very hard work,&#8221; ends up with &#8220;a very bad headache&#8221; before passing his duties off to his Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>By all indications, Laura Bush <i>chose<\/i> this book to read to the kids. (Maybe the First Lady has a good sense of humor?)<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the jokes write themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s Morning Edition on NPR: This is the morning that kids were invited to the White House for the Easter egg roll. The roll for Laura Bush includes reading a children&#8217;s book. It&#8217;s called, &#8220;Duck for President.&#8221; The first lady will read the story of a duck who takes over the farm, then runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}