{"id":1314,"date":"2005-12-05T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/05\/bush_praise_poem_sneaked_into_textbooks"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:29:06","slug":"bush_praise_poem_sneaked_into_textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/05\/bush_praise_poem_sneaked_into_textbooks","title":{"rendered":"Bush praise poem sneaked into textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,3604,1657962,00.html\">The Guardian reports<\/a> today that someone managed to sneak a praise-poem for George W Bush into an English textbook which was being used on 16-year-olds in Pakistani schools:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPatient and steady with all he must bear,<br \/>\nReady to accept every challenge with care,<br \/>\nEasy in manner, yet solid as steel,<br \/>\nStrong in his faith, refreshingly real,<br \/>\nIsn&#39;t afraid to propose what is bold,<br \/>\nDoesn&#39;t conform to the usual mold,<br \/>\nEyes that have foresight, for hindsight wont do<br \/>\nNever back down when he sees what is true<br \/>\nTells it all straight, and means it all too<br \/>\nBracing for war, but praying for peace<br \/>\nUsing his power so evil will cease:<br \/>\nSo much a leader and worthy of trust,<br \/>\nHere stands a man who will do what he must\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, let&#39;s see who can come up with some poems celebrating, or otherwise, some of our age&#39;s other &quot;great leaders&quot;.  Who better to start with than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk\/\">Insensitive Jerk<\/a> himself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports today that someone managed to sneak a praise-poem for George W Bush into an English textbook which was being used on 16-year-olds in Pakistani schools: The leader Patient and steady with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42690,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/42690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}