{"id":1062,"date":"2003-09-30T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2013-11-28T11:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:27:45","slug":"gee-thats-pretty-easy-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Gee, that&#8217;s pretty easy advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/30\/politics\/30LOBB.html\" target=\"Offsite\"><i>New York Times<\/i> article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 \u2014 A group of businessmen linked by their close ties to President Bush, his family and his administration have set up a consulting firm to advise companies that want to do business in Iraq, including those seeking pieces of taxpayer-financed reconstruction projects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I could hand out that kind of advice. &#8220;You wanna do business in Iraq? Drop a few hundred thousand into W&#8217;s re-election fund&#8221;. People actually need to pay consultants to hear that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a New York Times article: WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 \u2014 A group of businessmen linked by their close ties to President Bush, his family and his administration have set up a consulting firm to advise companies that want to do business in Iraq, including those seeking pieces of taxpayer-financed reconstruction projects. I could hand out&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=1062\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gee, that&#8217;s pretty easy advice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-h8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}