{"id":13576,"date":"2008-11-11T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T04:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/11\/11\/words-mean-things-19.html"},"modified":"2008-11-11T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T04:06:21","slug":"words_mean_things_19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/words_mean_things_19.html","title":{"rendered":"Words mean things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now <\/em>he regrets some of the things he said<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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“I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said,” Bush told CNN’s Heidi Collins Twhen asked to reflect on his regrets over his two terms as president. “Like ‘Dead or Alive’ and ‘Bring ’em on.’ My wife reminded me that, hey, as president of the United States be careful what you say.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And it only took him eight years to actually process it. Or admit he regrets anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now he regrets some of the things he said … “I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said,” Bush told CNN’s Heidi Collins Twhen asked to reflect on his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131310,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/when-is-an-apology-not-an-apology-yuge-regrets-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":13576,"position":0},"title":"When is an apology not an apology? 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