{"id":1710,"date":"2004-05-05T13:49:34","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T18:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1710.html"},"modified":"2004-05-05T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T18:49:34","slug":"theres-that-darn-passive-voice-phrase-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/theres-that-darn-passive-voice-phrase-again\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s that darn passive-voice phrase again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President George H.W. Bush, on the Iran-Contra scandal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2001\/09\/murphy.htm\">in 1986<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Clearly, mistakes were made.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Former President Ronald Reagan, on the Iran-Contra scandal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/upi-breaking\/20031203-043511-8112r.htm\">in 1986<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mistakes were made.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>President George W. Bush, on the Abu Ghraib scandal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A3841-2004May5.html\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush said it was important for &#8220;the people of Iraq to know that everything is not perfect. That mistakes are made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President George H.W. Bush, on the Iran-Contra scandal, in 1986: &#8220;Clearly, mistakes were made.&#8221; Former President Ronald Reagan, on the Iran-Contra scandal, in 1986: &#8220;Mistakes were made.&#8221; President George W. Bush, on the Abu Ghraib scandal, today: Bush said it was important for &#8220;the people of Iraq to know that everything is not perfect. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","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=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}