{"id":4923,"date":"2011-07-12T08:14:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2011-07-12T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:15:54","slug":"a-bit-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4923","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1988, George Herbert Walker Bush ran for President, and expressed his central campaign promise <blockquote>Read my lips: No New Taxes.<\/blockquote> After he took office, a repeated, emphatic message from the main-stream media was that he was <em>stupid<\/em> for holding to this promise and resisting any increase in taxes.  Ultimately, he folded, and supported a tax increase, at which point, the main-stream media <em>turned on a dime<\/em>, and one of its repeated, emphatic messages was that he had <em>dishonorably broken his promise<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1988, George Herbert Walker Bush ran for President, and expressed his central campaign promise Read my lips: No New Taxes. After he took office, a repeated, emphatic message from the main-stream media was that he was stupid for holding to this promise and resisting any increase in taxes. Ultimately, he folded, and supported a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[1029,1030,553],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-public","tag-george-herbert-walker-bush","tag-ghw-bush","tag-taxation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}