{"id":326,"date":"2003-12-15T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/in_the_loop\/"},"modified":"2003-12-15T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T19:02:22","slug":"in_the_loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/in_the_loop\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s <strike>Ambassador<\/strike> Representative to the U.S. Rend Al-Rehim&#8211;who, incidentally, hasn&#8217;t actually lived in Iraq since 1978&#8211;was on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Late Edition&#8221; yesterday and gave this indication of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0312\/14\/le.00.html\">relative standing on the totem pole<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> BLITZER: When were you personally informed what was going on [Saddam&#8217;s capture]?<br \/>\nAL-RAHIM: 6:00 a.m. this morning.<br \/>\nBLITZER: Who called you?<br \/>\nAL-RAHIM: I got a call from my mother in Beirut, who said that she has been sitting by the phone for three hours, waiting to call me. And soon after that, I started getting calls from Baghdad, as well, and from around the U.S., people &#8212; Iraqis mostly &#8212; calling to congratulate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good thing this prominent Iraqi figure has her Lebanese mom to, you know, keep her abreast of what&#8217;s going on in Iraq.  Sounds like she must be a major player.<br \/>\nAn autonomous Iraqi government is just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/in_the_loop\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to In the Loop\"><p>Iraq&#8217;s Ambassador Representative to the U.S. Rend Al-Rehim&#8211;who, incidentally, hasn&#8217;t actually lived in Iraq since 1978&#8211;was on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Late Edition&#8221; yesterday and gave this indication of her relative standing on the totem pole: BLITZER: When were you personally informed what was going on [Saddam&#8217;s capture]? AL-RAHIM: 6:00 a.m. this morning. BLITZER: Who called you? AL-RAHIM: [&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-326","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\/326","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=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}