{"id":989,"date":"2004-06-28T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T20:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/let_freedom_reign\/"},"modified":"2004-06-28T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T20:01:01","slug":"let_freedom_reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/let_freedom_reign\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Freedom Reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TV news is all over the &#8220;surprise&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/06\/28\/iraq.handover\/index.html\">handover of Iraq two days early<\/a> (though insiders started preparing for this a week ago).  I think they are all miffed because they lost out on some planned programming and nifty graphics they had planned for the event.<br \/>\nI guess we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that the only other people that are really playing this up are U.S. politicians.  Interestingly, MSNBC has devoted more attention to Condi sneaking Mr. President a note during his meeting (as if Bush didn&#8217;t know this was going to happen) than it has covered the reaction of the newly &#8220;sovereign&#8221; Iraqi citizens themselves.  Apparently, sovereignty isn&#8217;t such a big deal when you have car bombs sounding off and 150,000 foriegn troops roaming about your land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/let_freedom_reign\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Let Freedom Reign\"><p>The TV news is all over the &#8220;surprise&#8221; handover of Iraq two days early (though insiders started preparing for this a week ago). I think they are all miffed because they lost out on some planned programming and nifty graphics they had planned for the event. I guess we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that the only [&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-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}