{"id":197770,"date":"2008-01-13T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/13\/the-736-million-1000-man-stove-on-the-euphrates\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T17:32:00","slug":"the-736-million-1000-man-stove-on-the-euphrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/13\/the-736-million-1000-man-stove-on-the-euphrates\/","title":{"rendered":"The $736 Million 1000 Man Stove on the Euphrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, after 736 million dollars, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/11\/AR2008011103772.html?hpid=topnews\">the State Department&#8217;s Baghdad Embassy is a fire hazard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the power plant and electrical has not been tested at all.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise.  A \u00be Billion contract handed out to a, &#8220;Contractor had never built an embassy and did not realize that under State Department rules it needed approval for substituting certain materials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m sure that they have a long history of contributing to the Republican party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, after 736 million dollars, the State Department&#8217;s Baghdad Embassy is a fire hazard. In addition, the power plant and electrical has not been tested at all. No surprise. A \u00be Billion contract handed out to a, &#8220;Contractor had never built an embassy and did not realize that under State Department rules it needed approval &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,964,1063,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197770"}],"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=197770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}