{"id":132,"date":"2007-03-05T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/05\/absurd-headline-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T22:54:48","slug":"absurd-headline-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/politics\/absurd-headline-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Absurd Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bush Heads for Latin America to Counter Appeal of Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The headline appeared in the <em>Guardian <\/em>(where they actually put the diacritic in Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez&#8217;s name). I mean, Bush currently has a record low approval rating <em>here in the U.S.<\/em> Imagine what his approval rating is in Latin America. How many hearts is this guy going to win us with this trip?<\/p>\n<p>What he really wants, I suppose, is to skip town, since the heat is on. No doubt he&#8217;ll be traveling in an airtight circle of security and just meeting a few carefully chosen leaders for minutely scripted photo ops.<\/p>\n<p>If we were serious about countering the appeal of  Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez we would send Los Lobos on a good will tour, not some rich oil guy who has spent his entire career transfering the world&#8217;s wealth to his little coterie of buddies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/nazibush.jpg\" title=\"brazil protest\" alt=\"brazil protest\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">Protesting Bush&#8217;s visit in Brazil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Heads for Latin America to Counter Appeal of Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez The headline appeared in the Guardian (where they actually put the diacritic in Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez&#8217;s name). I mean, Bush&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}