{"id":1425,"date":"2005-01-20T06:19:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T11:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/signs_of_desperation\/"},"modified":"2005-01-20T06:19:55","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T11:19:55","slug":"signs_of_desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/signs_of_desperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"26 killed in Baghdad suicide bombings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,1394392,00.html\">Boom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A series of suicide car bomb attacks rocked Baghdad yesterday killing up to 26 people.<br \/>\nAt least four separate bombs went off within 90 minutes of each other in a coordinated strike. The US military said 26 people were killed, although Iraqi officials put the toll lower at around 12 dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Four car bombs in one morning: what does that suggest regarding the supply of cars, bombs, and suicide bombers in the region?  They&#8217;ve apparently got an assembly line in operation there.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re continually told that these bombings are an effort to thwart the upcoming elections.  I&#8217;m not up on the insurgent play book, but if I was planning toward that end, I&#8217;d be storing up the big fireworks for the week of the election.  Which makes you wonder: if we&#8217;re seeing this level of violence now, how much worse might it get by election day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/signs_of_desperation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Signs of Desperation\"><p>Boom: A series of suicide car bomb attacks rocked Baghdad yesterday killing up to 26 people. At least four separate bombs went off within 90 minutes of each other in a coordinated strike. The US military said 26 people were killed, although Iraqi officials put the toll lower at around 12 dead. Four car bombs [&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-1425","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\/1425","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=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}