{"id":113,"date":"2003-11-01T00:19:19","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T05:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/news_flashback_the_tightening\/"},"modified":"2003-11-01T00:19:19","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T05:19:19","slug":"news_flashback_the_tightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/news_flashback_the_tightening\/","title":{"rendered":"News Flashback: The Tightening Noose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how, after Saddam Hussein&#8217;s sons were killed in July, we heard all this chatter from the military leadership (and worse yet the network &#8220;military experts&#8221;) on how we were about to capture Saddam?  Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/iraq\/sns-iraq,0,1648964.story?coll=chi-news-hed\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Is the noose tightening around him? Absolutely,&#8221; said Col. James Hickey, the commander in Tikrit, Hussein&#8217;s hometown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It must have been a <i>really<\/i> big noose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/news_flashback_the_tightening\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to News Flashback: The Tightening Noose\"><p>Remember how, after Saddam Hussein&#8217;s sons were killed in July, we heard all this chatter from the military leadership (and worse yet the network &#8220;military experts&#8221;) on how we were about to capture Saddam? Like this: &#8220;Is the noose tightening around him? Absolutely,&#8221; said Col. James Hickey, the commander in Tikrit, Hussein&#8217;s hometown. It must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}