{"id":2541,"date":"2013-04-22T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2013-04-22T09:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:30:54","slug":"george-w-bushs-reluctant-re-emergence-on-the-political-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/22\/george-w-bushs-reluctant-re-emergence-on-the-political-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush&#8217;s Reluctant Re-Emergence on the Political Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=19114&amp;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks into his post-presidential life, George W. Bush flew off with an old friend to launch the arduous task of raising a half-billion dollars to build his library and refurbish his tattered legacy.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks into his post-presidential life, George W. Bush flew off with an old friend to launch the arduous task of raising a half-billion dollars to build his library and refurbish his tattered legacy.<\/p>\n<p>After a successful pitch to a wealthy prospective donor over dinner in Lexington, Ky., his traveling companion arrived at Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s suite next morning to find the 43rd President in a wistful mood.<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/george-w-bush-s-reluctant-re-emergence-on-the-political-scene-20130422?page=1\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/george-w-bush-s-reluctant-re-emergence-on-the-political-scene-20130422?page=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks into his post-presidential life, George W. Bush flew off with an old friend to launch the arduous task of raising a half-billion dollars to build his library and refurbish his tattered legacy. A few weeks into his post-presidential life, George W. Bush flew off with an old friend to launch the arduous &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/22\/george-w-bushs-reluctant-re-emergence-on-the-political-scene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;George W. Bush&#8217;s Reluctant Re-Emergence on the Political Scene&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,6,952],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt","tag-tom-defrank"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-EZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}