{"id":1487,"date":"2009-03-18T18:15:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T23:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2018-11-03T02:47:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:47:38","slug":"six-long-years-in-iraq-and-still-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/six-long-years-in-iraq-and-still-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Six long years in Iraq&#8230; still counting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/ishtarlioniconfacingleft.jpg\" alt=\"ishtarlioniconfacingleft.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another year goes by, and the world\u2019s (now rapidly dwindling) \u2018Superpower\u2019 is <em>still<\/em> involved in ill-begotten warfaring in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cradle_of_civilization\" target=\"_blank\">cradle of civilization<\/a>. When will it ever end&#8230; or will it never end?<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Looking back to last year\u2019s post (language warning still in effect)&#8230; here once again is \u2018<a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8\" target=\"_blank\">Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV<\/a>.\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. Another year goes by, and the world\u2019s (now rapidly dwindling) \u2018Superpower\u2019 is still involved in ill-begotten warfaring in the cradle of civilization. When will it ever end&#8230; or will it never end? Looking back to last year\u2019s post (language warning still in effect)&#8230; here once again is \u2018Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8,12,14,15,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16521,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/16521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}