{"id":4870,"date":"2018-12-01T08:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2018-12-01T08:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:38:57","slug":"george-h-w-bush-in-a-kinder-gentler-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/george-h-w-bush-in-a-kinder-gentler-place\/","title":{"rendered":"George H. W. Bush &#8211; in a kinder, gentler place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statutesandstories.com salutes the service of George H. W. Bush and wishes condolences to the Bush family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-01-at-8.19.49-AM-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4875 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-01-at-8.19.49-AM-1-250x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-01-at-8.19.49-AM-1-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-01-at-8.19.49-AM-1.png 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to a video of President Bush&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/us-presidents\/bushs-kinder-gentler-nation-video\">August 18, 1988 acceptance speech<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at the GOP national convention, the &#8220;kinder, gentler&#8221; nation speech.<\/p>\n<p>Bush 41&#8217;s life reflected a thousand points of light; a life dedicated to public service and family.<\/p>\n<p>This eight minute <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/30\/us\/politics\/george-hw-bush-dies.html\">obit video<\/a><\/strong><\/span> does justice to the life of a just man:<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F11%2F30%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fgeorge-hw-bush-dies.html#?secret=n5WLUN86MQ\" data-secret=\"n5WLUN86MQ\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to the full\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/address-accepting-the-presidential-nomination-the-republican-national-convention-new\">text<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of his 1988 acceptance speech, by arguably the most successful one term president who will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statutesandstories.com salutes the service of George H. W. Bush and wishes condolences to the Bush family. Here is a link&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}