{"id":2782,"date":"2004-10-15T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T18:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2782.html"},"modified":"2004-10-15T13:40:43","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T18:40:43","slug":"what-an-incredible-coincidence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/what-an-incredible-coincidence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What an incredible coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/pubs\/foi\/bush_records\/oct14bush.pdf\">set of documents<\/a> were released today by the Pentagon relating to Bush&#8217;s alleged service in the National Guard in the 1970s. I haven&#8217;t finished reading them yet, but there&#8217;s one thing that stands out before even reading the first word: today&#8217;s date.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me what all of these dates have in common, including today&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* The Associated Press, September 24, 2004 &#8212; Pentagon Releases More Bush Guard Papers <\/p>\n<p>* The Associated Press, September 17, 2004 &#8212; Newly released guard records contain letter from President Bush&#8217;s father<\/p>\n<p>* The Associated Press, July 23, 2004 &#8212; Pentagon finds, releases Bush&#8217;s 1972 Guard payroll records<\/p>\n<p>* The Associated Press, July 9, 2004 &#8212; Pentagon acknowledges some Bush Guard records destroyed<\/p>\n<p>* The Associated Press, February 13, 2004 &#8212; Bush orders White House release of military records<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right; they&#8217;re all Fridays. I&#8217;ll let you draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting set of documents were released today by the Pentagon relating to Bush&#8217;s alleged service in the National Guard in the 1970s. I haven&#8217;t finished reading them yet, but there&#8217;s one thing that stands out before even reading the first word: today&#8217;s date. Tell me what all of these dates have in common, including [&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-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","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=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}