{"id":4068,"date":"2007-01-24T11:03:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T19:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2007-01-24T13:03:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T21:03:52","slug":"encouraging-omen-bush-cuts-see-you-next-year-from-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"Bush Cuts ‘See You Next Year’ from Speech – An Encouraging Omen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One interesting — dare we say, hopeful — point we just noticed about last night’s speech.<\/p>\n

In the text transcript at the White House website<\/a>, the speech was written to end, curiously enough, with the following words:<\/p>\n

Yet we can go forward with confidence — because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless. (Applause.)<\/p>\n

See you next year. Thank you for your prayers.<\/p><\/div>\n

“See you next year”???<\/p>\n

Anybody ever recall such an ending to a State of the Union address?! Now why would they include something like that<\/em>, one has to wonder.<\/p>\n

But as odd as it was to include those words in the first place, what’s even more interesting is that Bush didn’t say them, choosing instead to end simply with “God bless.”<\/p>\n

Shall we take this as an encouraging omen? I say we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One interesting — dare we say, hopeful — point we just noticed about last night’s speech. In the text transcript at the White House website, the speech was written to end, curiously enough, with the following words: Yet we can go forward with confidence — because the State of our Union is strong, our cause […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,204],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impeachment","category-sotu","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}