{"id":1230,"date":"2004-02-10T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1230.html"},"modified":"2004-02-10T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T20:26:05","slug":"im-afraid-well-need-to-see-more-than-just-pay-stubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/im-afraid-well-need-to-see-more-than-just-pay-stubs\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m afraid we&#8217;ll need to see more than just pay stubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A28838-2004Feb10.html\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Pay records] show that [Bush] was paid for his service, and you get paid for the days on which you serve&#8230;. It showed that he fulfilled his duties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A27178-2004Feb9.html\">also today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was&#8230;lucky enough to get into a National Guard unit in the nick of time, about a day before I was drafted. I did my basic and advanced training (combat engineer) and returned to my unit. I was supposed to attend weekly drills and summer camp, but I found them inconvenient. I &#8220;moved&#8221; to California and then &#8220;moved&#8221; back to New York, establishing a confusing paper trail that led, really, nowhere. For two years or so, I played a perfectly legal form of hooky. To show you what a mess the Guard was at the time, <i>I even got paid for all the meetings I missed<\/i>. [emphasis added] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, today: [Pay records] show that [Bush] was paid for his service, and you get paid for the days on which you serve&#8230;. It showed that he fulfilled his duties. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, also today: I was&#8230;lucky enough to get into a National Guard unit in the nick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}