{"id":1653,"date":"2005-05-23T14:13:01","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T18:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/fighting_to_def\/"},"modified":"2005-05-23T14:13:01","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T18:13:01","slug":"fighting_to_def","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/fighting_to_def\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting To Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0505\/23\/lt.01.html\">Makes sense to me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[QUESTION]: Do you think that [the Iraqi] insurgence is getting harder now to defeat militarily?<br \/>\nBUSH: No, I don&#8217;t think so. I think they&#8217;re being defeated, and that&#8217;s why they continue to fight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, if you&#8217;re defeated, doesn&#8217;t that mean you <i>stop<\/i> fighting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/fighting_to_def\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Fighting To Defeat\"><p>Makes sense to me: [QUESTION]: Do you think that [the Iraqi] insurgence is getting harder now to defeat militarily? BUSH: No, I don&#8217;t think so. I think they&#8217;re being defeated, and that&#8217;s why they continue to fight. Uh, if you&#8217;re defeated, doesn&#8217;t that mean you stop fighting?<\/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-1653","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\/1653","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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}