{"id":6763,"date":"2010-08-25T18:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T22:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2010-08-25T18:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T22:27:43","slug":"vladimir-putin-action-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6763\/vladimir-putin-action-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin, Action Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell a lot about a man from his pastimes.\u00a0 According to the Associated Press (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129425436 \" target=\"_blank\">with associated photos<\/a>), the former Russian president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129425436 \" target=\"_blank\">shot a gray whale with a crossbow<\/a> from a rubber speed boat in choppy arctic waters.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t Putin\u2019s first brush with staged danger.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He has been photographed fishing bare-chested in Russia&#8217;s Altai region, and was shown on television diving into an icy river and swimming the butterfly stroke.<\/p>\n<p>In April he attached a satellite-tracking collar on a tranquilized polar bear. He also has shot a Siberian tiger with a tranquilizer gun and released leopards into a wildlife sanctuary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While there\u2019s no need for President Obama to wrestle an alligator or box with a grizzly bear, it would be nice if our dear leader could compensate by showing a bit more backbone in the foreign policy arena; especially towards Iran and <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.latimes.com\/wap\/news\/text.jsp?sid=294&amp;nid=19475440&amp;cid=16692&amp;scid=-1&amp;ith=0&amp;title=World\" target=\"_blank\">the country that built its new nuclear facility<\/a>.\u00a0 (I.e. Russia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell a lot about a man from his pastimes.\u00a0 According to the Associated Press (with associated photos), the former Russian president shot a gray whale with a crossbow from a rubber speed boat in choppy arctic waters. This isn\u2019t Putin\u2019s first brush with staged danger. He has been photographed fishing bare-chested in Russia&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,130,1767,510,141,1766],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-iran","tag-macho","tag-nuclear","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}