{"id":513,"date":"2004-01-23T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/quick_hits_1\/"},"modified":"2004-01-23T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T08:34:00","slug":"quick_hits_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/quick_hits_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Perhaps things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/7765415.htm\"><i>aren&#8217;t<\/i> so rosy in Iraq<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>CIA officers in Iraq are warning that the country may be on a path to civil war, current and former U.S. officials said Wednesday, starkly contradicting the upbeat assessment that President Bush gave in his State of the Union address.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Congressional Republican operatives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2004\/01\/22\/infiltration_of_files_seen_as_extensive\/\">break into confidential Democratic computer files<\/a>, yet on the T.V. news channels yesterday I heard nary a word about it. Guess they couldn&#8217;t squeeze the story in with all the breaking news chaos of the Bennifer split and &#8220;Ben&#8221; getting kicked off &#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Appearing &#8220;presidential&#8221; as always, Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandagon.net\/mtarchives\/000734.html\">tries to crack funnies<\/a> at the rib joint. Perhaps he should take a nine-month White House sabbatical to work on his act.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Tonight CNN&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/aaron.brown\/\">NewsNight with Aaron Brown<\/a>&#8221; is supposed to have a Mars show in 3-D. I wonder if the rover knows about it. Someone better find it to make sure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/quick_hits_1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Quick Hits\"><p>Perhaps things aren&#8217;t so rosy in Iraq: CIA officers in Iraq are warning that the country may be on a path to civil war, current and former U.S. officials said Wednesday, starkly contradicting the upbeat assessment that President Bush gave in his State of the Union address. Congressional Republican operatives break into confidential Democratic computer [&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-513","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\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}