{"id":5297,"date":"2004-04-10T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/04\/10\/george-says.html"},"modified":"2004-04-10T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2004-04-10T20:25:09","slug":"george_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/10\/george_says.html","title":{"rendered":"George says …"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the interest of rational political discourse regarding critical civil, social, and geopolitical issues in this election year, I present … GeorgeSays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"georgesays.jpg\"<\/center><\/p>\n

I trust we’ll see a “JohnSays” site Real Soon Now. Of course …<\/p>\n

(via Les<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the interest of rational political discourse regarding critical civil, social, and geopolitical issues in this election year, I present … GeorgeSays. I trust we’ll see a “JohnSays” site Real…<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4122,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/03\/fundamentals.html","url_meta":{"origin":5297,"position":0},"title":"Fundamentals","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Feb-03 10:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"As I continue to read various bits and pieces off the blogosphere regarding impending war on Iraq, I am struck by something fundamentally different between the \"hawks\" and the \"doves.\"...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41869,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/29\/is-it-time-for-a-geopolitical-divorce-with-israel.html","url_meta":{"origin":5297,"position":1},"title":"Is it time for a geopolitical divorce with Israel?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 29-Apr-14 10:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not often the case, but I agree with pretty much everything Andrew Sullivan writes here -- the good, the bad, and the ugly. 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