{"id":4806,"date":"2004-01-21T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2004-01-21T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T11:12:02","slug":"state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/01\/21\/state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"OxBlog - three politics and international affairs graduate students comment on current affairs\">OxBlog<\/a> offers an <a href=\"http:\/\/oxblog.blogspot.com\/2004_01_18_oxblog_archive.html#107465452760080391\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"instantly\">analysis of the State of the Union address<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">If the amount of time given over to a single idea reflects its relative importance in the State of the Union speech (a reasonable assumption), then the most important themes in tonight&#8217;s speech, in descending order, are: the need to commit adequate resources to the military for the war on terror (87 seconds); that government will act against single-sex marriage (84 seconds); the administration&#8217;s commitment to strengthening families and religious communities, and to combat juvenile use of drugs (78 seconds); the government&#8217;s commitment to education and excellence for each child in America (72 seconds); that the world without Saddam is a better and safer place (69 seconds). The closing matter took 78 seconds, centered around the idea that we are living in historic times.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OxBlog offers an analysis of the State of the Union address: If the amount of time given over to a single idea reflects its relative importance in the State of the Union speech (a reasonable assumption), then the most important themes in tonight&#8217;s speech, in descending order, are: the need to commit adequate resources to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}