{"id":313,"date":"2003-12-12T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/rebuilding_continues\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T17:57:22","slug":"rebuilding_continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/rebuilding_continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/3310809.stm\">This story<\/a> ran yesterday but is worth noting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US plans to create a new Iraqi army have suffered a setback after hundreds of recruits resigned.<br \/>\nThe army&#8217;s first 700-man battalion lost 300 troops who were within weeks of being deployed, Pentagon officials say.<br \/>\nThe battalion is the only one trained so far for what is eventually hoped to be a 40,000-strong force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the type of trend that makes it easy to turn control of Iraq back to the Iraqis.<br \/>\nFunny I haven&#8217;t heard much about this in the liberal, everything-is-crumbling-in-Iraq media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/rebuilding_continues\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Rebuilding Continues\"><p>This story ran yesterday but is worth noting: US plans to create a new Iraqi army have suffered a setback after hundreds of recruits resigned. The army&#8217;s first 700-man battalion lost 300 troops who were within weeks of being deployed, Pentagon officials say. The battalion is the only one trained so far for what is [&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-313","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\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}