{"id":47,"date":"2004-02-20T22:24:24","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T22:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2004-02-20T22:24:24","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T22:24:24","slug":"blogger_meets_the_president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Meets The President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger Rex Hammock writes about his <a href=\"http:\/\/rex.weblogs.com\/2004\/02\/19#a2576\">brief meeting with the President<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;My Warholian 15\/45 minutes: I?m writing this in a cab on my way to BWI for a flight back home to Nashville. I just walked out of the Old Executive Office Building where four other ?real people? and I sat down for a 25-minute chat with the President of the United States. Then the five of us stood behind him while he told a room full of people why the tax cuts he has championed should be made permanent&#8230;..&#8221;<br \/>\nMeanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A57355-2004Feb20.html\">from the Washington Post<\/a>:<br \/>\nThe White House press corps yesterday scrambled to figure out why a hastily-arranged &#8220;conversation&#8221; between President Bush and some regular Americans about the economy was suddenly closed to reporters &#8212; and what went on behind those closed doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger Rex Hammock writes about his brief meeting with the President: &#8220;My Warholian 15\/45 minutes: I?m writing this in a cab on my way to BWI for a flight back home to Nashville. I just walked out of the Old Executive Office Building where four other ?real people? and I sat down for a 25-minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}