{"id":2894,"date":"2007-09-09T21:20:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T03:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:32:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:32:03","slug":"huckabee-on-nprs-wait-wait-dont-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/huckabee-on-nprs-wait-wait-dont-tell-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Wait, Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/219px-mdhuckabee.jpg' title='219px-mdhuckabee.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/219px-mdhuckabee.jpg' alt='219px-mdhuckabee.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikehuckabee.com\">Arkansas Governor <strong>Mike Huckabee<\/a><\/strong> was on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/podcastdownload.npr.org\/anon.npr-podcasts\/podcast\/35\/14278701\/npr_14278701.mp3\">Wait, Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me<\/span>&#8221; this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Great intro from <strong>Peter<\/strong>, WWDTM&#8217;s host, &#8220;What makes you think a kid from Hope, Arkansas and then the governor of a small obscure state like Arkansas could ever be president?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Well you know it&#8217;s been tried before,&#8221; Huckabee responded. &#8220;Some people aren&#8217;t sure it turned out so well so we&#8217;re going to give it one more try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee was great and very, very personable. Really showed off his personality. He seemed to have a great time and talked about his weight loss as well as his pardoning of <strong>Keith Richards<\/strong> of the Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee answered questions for listener <strong>Sally Powell<\/strong> of Toronto, Canada, and Huckabee quickly pointed out she couldn&#8217;t even vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>He answered questions on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edsel\">Edsel car<\/a> introduced by Ford 50 years ago and correctly answered 2 out of 3 questions correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee&#8217;s portion of the show comes at 18:20 into the program. You can listen to the entire show <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/podcastdownload.npr.org\/anon.npr-podcasts\/podcast\/35\/14278701\/npr_14278701.mp3\">here<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Wait, Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221; this weekend. Great intro from Peter, WWDTM&#8217;s host, &#8220;What makes you think a kid from Hope, Arkansas and then the governor of a small obscure state like Arkansas could ever be president?&#8221; &#8220;Well you know it&#8217;s been tried before,&#8221; Huckabee responded. &#8220;Some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/huckabee-on-nprs-wait-wait-dont-tell-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Huckabee on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Wait, Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-KG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10846,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/10846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}