{"id":180552,"date":"2017-03-17T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/17\/fact-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:15:00","slug":"fact-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/17\/fact-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Adjusted for inflation, American spending to reconstruct Afghanistan now exceeds the total expended to rebuild all of Western Europe under the Marshall Plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014Andrew Bacevich, writing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/13\/opinion\/the-never-ending-war-in-afghanistan.html\"><i>New York Times<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Step one when you are in a hole:  Stop digging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjusted for inflation, American spending to reconstruct Afghanistan now exceeds the total expended to rebuild all of Western Europe under the Marshall Plan. \u2014Andrew Bacevich, writing in the New York Times Step one when you are in a hole: Stop digging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[467,588,464,377],"class_list":["post-180552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-afghanistan","tag-fail","tag-good-writing","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}