{"id":15072,"date":"2003-04-03T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/03\/donald-rumsfeld-statesman-poet\/"},"modified":"2003-04-03T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T18:29:00","slug":"donald-rumsfeld-statesman-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/03\/donald-rumsfeld-statesman-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Rumsfeld: Statesman, Poet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Slate<\/i> features a heretofore unappreciated side to <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2081042\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Rumsfeld: his poetry<\/a>.  OK, so they&rsquo;re just taking excerpts from some of his more obtuse comments during press conferences, but it&rsquo;s still funny.  Here&rsquo;s an example:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Unknown<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2081042\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Donald Rumsfeld - poet\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/donaldrumsfeld_poet.jpg\" \/><\/a>As we know,<br \/>\n<br \/>There are known knowns.<br \/>\n<br \/>There are things we know we know.<br \/>\n<br \/>We also know<br \/>\n<br \/>There are known unknowns.<br \/>\n<br \/>That is to say<br \/>\n<br \/>We know there are some things<br \/>\n<br \/>We do not know.<br \/>\n<br \/>But there are also unknown unknowns,<br \/>\n<br \/>The ones we don&rsquo;t know<br \/>\n<br \/>We don&rsquo;t know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Very<\/i> deep.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200092428?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate features a heretofore unappreciated side to Donald Rumsfeld: his poetry. OK, so they&rsquo;re just taking excerpts from some of his more obtuse comments during press conferences, but it&rsquo;s still funny. Here&rsquo;s an example: The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/03\/donald-rumsfeld-statesman-poet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donald Rumsfeld: Statesman, Poet?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}