{"id":29186,"date":"2012-03-19T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29186"},"modified":"2012-03-19T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:55:10","slug":"and-we-are-all-the-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29186","title":{"rendered":"And we are all the fish&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, if we want to drag this analogy to the point of exhaustion, <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2012\/03\/obama-sometimes-i-feel-like-the-old-man-and-the-sea\/1?csp=34news#.T2c0S9X5Y4Q\">BO&#8217;s policies are the fahkin shark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The frustrations of the presidency once had Barack Obama reach for a literary metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At times he couldn&#8217;t help feeling, as he told one associate, a kinship with the protagonist in Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s The Old Man and the Sea,&#8221; writes David Corn in his new book on the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had, against tremendous odds, caught a big fish, but on the long voyage back to shore, his prized catch had been picked to pieces by sharks,&#8221; Corn writes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, if we want to drag this analogy to the point of exhaustion, BO&#8217;s policies are &hellip; <a title=\"And we are all the fish&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29186\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And we are all the fish&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}