{"id":10352,"date":"2011-11-02T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2011-11-02T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T18:09:28","slug":"the-private-sector-was-there-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/the-private-sector-was-there-first\/","title":{"rendered":"The Private Sector Was There First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/troglopundit.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/02\/if-you-thought-the-hummer-was-the-most-marketable-product-to-come-out-of-military-rd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trog links<\/a> to a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/envoy\/caffeinated-beef-jerky-tested-military-mres-180759131.html\" target=\"_blank\">the military investigating the possibility of caffeinating meat for soldiers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Army lab here is testing a beef jerky stick that . . . contains an equivalent of a cup of coffee&#8217;s worth of caffeine to give even the sleepiest soldier that up-and-at-&#8217;em boost,&#8221; Davenport reported.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on, the private sector is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perkyjerky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">already there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(I knew about Perky Jerky because I&#8217;d read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2010\/0607\/entrepreneurs-beef-perky-jerky-sports-authority-beefed-up.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article in <em>Forbes<\/em><\/a>.  The link is not important; what&#8217;s important, gentle reader, is that you respect me for reading <em>Forbes<\/em> in print.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trog links to a story about the military investigating the possibility of caffeinating meat for soldiers: An Army lab here is testing a beef jerky stick that . . . contains an equivalent of a cup of coffee&#8217;s worth of caffeine to give even the sleepiest soldier that up-and-at-&#8217;em boost,&#8221; Davenport reported. Come on, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10354,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions\/10354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}