{"id":1424,"date":"2018-12-05T23:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:25:56","slug":"historian-jon-meachams-eulogy-for-president-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Historian Jon Meacham&#8217;s eulogy for President Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c51882200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c51882200b-200wi\" alt=\"Jon meacham\" title=\"Jon meacham\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw a piece of the Bush funeral but didn&#8217;t see this. All four of the eulogies for him were powerful. Meacham here relates the story of Bush being shot down and how it affected him. It&#8217;s 12 minutes long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8-g5sVyfQ4k\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a piece of the Bush funeral but didn&#8217;t see this. All four of the eulogies for him were powerful. Meacham here relates the story of Bush being shot down and how it affected him. It&#8217;s 12 minutes long. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13056,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/13056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}