{"id":911,"date":"2004-05-09T02:29:13","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T06:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/post\/"},"modified":"2004-05-09T02:29:13","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T06:29:13","slug":"post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/post\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>River at Baghdad Burning offers advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/riverbendblog.blogspot.com\/2004_05_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#108392335918002921\">what the U.S. should do with Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I sometimes get emails asking me to propose solutions or make suggestions. Fine. Today&#8217;s lesson: don&#8217;t rape, don&#8217;t torture, don&#8217;t kill and get out while you can- while it still looks like you have a choice&#8230; Chaos? Civil war? Bloodshed? We&#8217;ll take our chances- just take your Puppets, your tanks, your smart weapons, your dumb politicians, your lies, your empty promises, your rapists, your sadistic torturers and go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t sound good.  If this is the prevailing sentiment on the Baghdad street the American loses in Iraq are sure to continue indefinitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/post\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \"><p>River at Baghdad Burning offers advice on what the U.S. should do with Iraq: I sometimes get emails asking me to propose solutions or make suggestions. Fine. Today&#8217;s lesson: don&#8217;t rape, don&#8217;t torture, don&#8217;t kill and get out while you can- while it still looks like you have a choice&#8230; Chaos? Civil war? Bloodshed? We&#8217;ll [&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-911","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\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}