{"id":182305,"date":"2015-10-24T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/24\/note-the-quotes-in-the-headline\/"},"modified":"2015-10-24T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T01:01:00","slug":"note-the-quotes-in-the-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/24\/note-the-quotes-in-the-headline\/","title":{"rendered":"Note the Quotes in the Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC described the latest special operations action in Iraq as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/34607471\"><b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;font-size: 100%;\">US-Iraqi Rescue Operation &#8216;Foils IS Mass Execution&#8217;<\/span><\/b><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m inclined to put a quote around &#8220;Foils Mass Execution&#8221; too.<\/p>\n<p>It strikes me that this operation was more likely driven by concerns about increased Russian influence, and success, in the region that it is by high quality actionable intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that the slang for this is &#8220;Wag the Dog&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC described the latest special operations action in Iraq as &#8220;US-Iraqi Rescue Operation &#8216;Foils IS Mass Execution&#8217;.&#8221; I&#8217;m inclined to put a quote around &#8220;Foils Mass Execution&#8221; too. It strikes me that this operation was more likely driven by concerns about increased Russian influence, and success, in the region that it is by high &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1149,1063,1006,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracy","category-iraq","category-military","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182305"}],"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=182305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}