{"id":7319,"date":"2006-05-04T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2006-05-04T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T17:07:13","slug":"the-first-ladys-quick-change-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-first-ladys-quick-change-of-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Lady&#8217;s quick change of heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Bush, on how the national anthem should be sung.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is anything wrong with singing it in Spanish. The point is it&#8217;s the United States national anthem and what people want is it to be sung in a way that respects the United States and our culture. At the same time, we are a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of many, many languages, because immigrants come and bring their languages.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Laura Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/05\/04\/laura-flip-flop\/\">25 seconds later<\/a>, after being reminded that her husband believes differently.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think it should be sung in English, of course.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty impressive turn-around, even by Bush standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Bush, on how the national anthem should be sung. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is anything wrong with singing it in Spanish. The point is it&#8217;s the United States national anthem and what people want is it to be sung in a way that respects the United States and our culture. At the same time, [&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-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","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=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}