{"id":1188,"date":"2004-07-25T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2018-08-13T10:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:29:13","slug":"1188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/1188\/","title":{"rendered":"News Flash!  Hold the Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below the fold, at least, the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> offers this portrait of John Kerry:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/Election+2004\/DAA461489508819686256EDB00382606?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Vietnam+etched+Kerry's+outlook\" target=\"_new\">Vietnam etched Kerry&#8217;s outlook: War record points to leadership and strength; critics question his recollections, motives and decision making.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s sum up Kerry&#8217;s Vietnam experience.  In country for a couple of months, wounded three times and leaves.  The dude is a walking, and unfortunately talking, shrapnel cushion, where Charlie put sharp edges to keep them safe.  I mean, sometime in every episode, one of his crewmen would shout, &#8220;Oh my god, they&#8217;ve wounded Kerry!&#8221;  Leadership?  You&#8217;re stepping in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below the fold, at least, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch offers this portrait of John Kerry: Vietnam etched Kerry&#8217;s outlook: War record points to leadership and strength; critics question his recollections, motives and decision making. Let&#8217;s sum up Kerry&#8217;s Vietnam experience. In country for a couple of months, wounded three times and leaves. The dude is [&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-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","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=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23031,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/23031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}