{"id":8145,"date":"2006-08-08T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8145.html"},"modified":"2006-08-08T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T14:16:06","slug":"air-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/air-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Air assault&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Reuters White House correspondent Steve Holland was offered the rare treat of accompanying the president on a challenging bike ride around Bush&#8217;s Texas ranch. Holland <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14206862\/\">seemed impressed<\/a> by the president&#8217;s biking skills.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president set a brutal pace for his accompanying riders, who included two Secret Service agents, White House spokesman Tony Snow and this reporter, who managed to gasp his way through the 12 1\/2-mile (20-km) ride.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I would give to be 16 again!&#8221; Bush yelled out at one point as he mashed the pedals of his Trek bicycle through a wooded area.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, [tag]Bush[\/tag] does not ride quietly, constantly shouting out in his Texas twang the names of trees and geographic features and yelling at himself to pedal faster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Air assault!&#8221; he yelled as he started one of two major climbs, up Calichi Hill, which he named for the white limestone rock from which it is formed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Dan Froomkin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/linkset\/2005\/04\/11\/LI2005041100879.html\">added<\/a>, &#8220;Yes, he actually yelled out &#8216;[tag]air assault[\/tag].'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know someone in my neighborhood who likes to yell out cartoonish phrases while he rides his bike. He&#8217;s 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Reuters White House correspondent Steve Holland was offered the rare treat of accompanying the president on a challenging bike ride around Bush&#8217;s Texas ranch. Holland seemed impressed by the president&#8217;s biking skills. The president set a brutal pace for his accompanying riders, who included two Secret Service agents, White House spokesman Tony [&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-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","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=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}