{"id":199266,"date":"2007-08-20T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/20\/read-this-4\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T10:01:00","slug":"read-this-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/20\/read-this-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">VERY<\/span> good OP\/ED in the New York Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/19\/opinion\/19jayamaha.html?_r=3&amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">The War as We Saw It<\/a>, written by recent Iraq war vets in the 82nd Airborne.  Their point is that , &#8220;Four years into our occupation, we have failed on every promise, while we have substituted Baath Party tyranny with a tyranny of Islamist, militia and criminal violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a VERY good OP\/ED in the New York Times, The War as We Saw It, written by recent Iraq war vets in the 82nd Airborne. Their point is that , &#8220;Four years into our occupation, we have failed on every promise, while we have substituted Baath Party tyranny with a tyranny of Islamist, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199266"}],"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=199266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}