{"id":621,"date":"2008-02-20T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=621"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:03:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T00:03:43","slug":"why-i-dont-hate-george-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&#8217;t Hate George Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush has been touring Africa, where he&#8217;s poured billions into AIDS relief and debt forgiveness.  Naturally, he&#8217;s found a warm reception, which has been totally <a href=\"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11163\">ignored by the Western media<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Geldof praised Mr. Bush for his work in delivering billions to fight disease and poverty in Africa, and blasted the U.S. press for ignoring the achievement. Mr. Bush, said Mr. Geldof, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153has done more than any other president so far.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is the triumph of American policy really,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was probably unexpected of the man. It was expected of the nation, but not of the man, but both rose to the occasion.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in it for [Mr. Bush]? Absolutely nothing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Geldof said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush has been touring Africa, where he&#8217;s poured billions into AIDS relief and debt forgiveness. Naturally, he&#8217;s found a warm reception, which has been totally ignored by the Western media: Mr. Geldof praised Mr. Bush for his work in delivering billions to fight disease and poverty in Africa, and blasted the U.S. press for ignoring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=621\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Don&#8217;t Hate George Bush&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[131,130,129],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-africa","tag-aids","tag-george-w-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}