{"id":207,"date":"2003-10-27T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=207"},"modified":"2003-10-27T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2003-10-27T07:22:07","slug":"clumsy-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/clumsy-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Clumsy writing &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; makes us look like we&#8217;ve got an agenda. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A22737-2003Oct27.html\">To wit:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bombings occurred just hours after three other American soldiers were killed in overnight attacks in and around the capital,<i> bringing to 112 the total number of U.S. military personnel killed in hostile acts since President Bush declared an end to major combat in Iraq on May 1.  <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What earthly reason is there for focusing on the dead since the &#8220;end of hostilities&#8221; except to expose Bush to ridicule?  Everybody with a brain knows there&#8217;s still a war on in Iraq &#8212; why not state the death toll for the whole thing and leave it at that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; makes us look like we&#8217;ve got an agenda. To wit: The bombings occurred just hours after three other American soldiers were killed in overnight attacks in and around the capital, bringing to 112 the total number of U.S. military&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/clumsy-writing\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}