{"id":1118,"date":"2004-05-24T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T05:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2004-05-24T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T05:18:12","slug":"blog-read-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/05\/24\/blog-read-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Read of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002324\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/econ4dean.typepad.com\/lerxst\/2004\/05\/was_iran_behind.html\">Iranians?<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember the misleading sentence&#8230; &#8220;British intelligence has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.&#8221;  (proof that this was &#8220;misleading&#8221;: the only way it could get into the State of the Union Address is with the caveat <i>British intelligence has learned<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; It&#8217;s a Tom Clancy read, from my vantage point, and really only worth speculating in the Tom Clancy spirit&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; See&#8230; <i>what point of reference do I have here?<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>The truth will come out.  And I&#8217;ll be there to simplify it to its basic essence once it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranians?&#8230; Remember the misleading sentence&#8230; &#8220;British intelligence has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.&#8221; (proof that this was &#8220;misleading&#8221;: the only way it could get into the State of the Union Address is with the caveat British intelligence has learned.) But &#8230; It&#8217;s a Tom Clancy read, from my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}