{"id":1684,"date":"2005-06-22T12:07:37","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/virtually_ident\/"},"modified":"2005-06-22T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T16:07:37","slug":"virtually_ident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/virtually_ident\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtually Identical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DeLay uses Houston to make point about Iraq\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/front\/3235606\">Houston and Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DeLay offered this response: &#8220;These things take time and they take a long time, and some people get weary of the constant barrage that we see in the media.<br \/>\n&#8220;You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard as Iraq is held to, nobody&#8217;d go to Houston, because all this reporting coming out of the local press in Houston is violence, murders, robberies, deaths on the highways,&#8221; DeLay said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, except for the liberal media coverage, Houston and Baghdad are <i>very<\/i> similar.  Only Houston doesn&#8217;t have the daily suicide bombings.  And it has electricity more than a few hours a day.  And has functioning water and sewer.  And a functioning government.<br \/>\nWere it not for the above you&#8217;d have a hard time telling one from the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/virtually_ident\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Virtually Identical\"><p>Houston and Iraq: DeLay offered this response: &#8220;These things take time and they take a long time, and some people get weary of the constant barrage that we see in the media. &#8220;You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard as Iraq is held to, nobody&#8217;d go to Houston, because all this [&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-1684","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\/1684","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=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}