{"id":587,"date":"2004-02-27T08:05:53","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T08:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=587"},"modified":"2004-02-27T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2004-02-27T08:05:53","slug":"staying-on-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/staying-on-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying on message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CJR&#8217;s Campaign Desk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/blog\/archives\/cat_echo_chamber.asp#000199\">recounts a White House news briefing exchange <\/a>that would be funny it were in a sitcom.<\/p>\n<ul>\nThe final tally? When discussing gay marriage McClellan employed the phrase &#8220;sacred institution&#8221; nine times during the 36-minute briefing. Close cousins &#8220;enduring institution&#8221; and &#8220;enduring and lasting institution&#8221; made eleven appearances.<\/ul>\n<p>And to think ambitious newsies <i>aspire<\/i> to such royal treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJR&#8217;s Campaign Desk recounts a White House news briefing exchange that would be funny it were in a sitcom. The final tally? When discussing gay marriage McClellan employed the phrase &#8220;sacred institution&#8221; nine times during the 36-minute briefing. Close cousins&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/staying-on-message\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}