{"id":1266,"date":"2004-08-23T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2018-08-13T05:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:44:23","slug":"1266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/23\/1266\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Wrong With This Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP, which stands for &#8220;Agents of France Posse&#8221;, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,10534579%5E401,00.html\" target=\"_new\">Blair refuses to accept US award<\/a>, by which they mean the Congressional Medal of Honor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is refusing to fly to the US to receive a medal bestowed on him by the nation for his support over last year&#8217;s Iraq war, a London newspaper reported today.<\/p>\n<p>US President George W. Bush has put huge pressure on his closest ally to pick up the Congressional Medal of Honour in person, the Sunday Mirror said, quoting a senior British government source.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that senior source can (how would a silver-tongued sub-Continental bureacrats understand it?) <b>SMEG OFF<\/b>.  Tony Blair cannot recieve a Congressional Medal of Honor.  Period.  Source this to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmohs.org\/medal.htm\" target=\"_new\">Congressional Medal of Honor Society<\/a>, whose word I would trust over some government functionary leaking to the French any day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The  Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be <b>bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States<\/b>. Generally presented to its recipient by the President of the United States of America in the name of Congress, it is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only way he could get it would be if he really were a bona fide US operative.  Is that what they&#8217;re &#8220;admitting&#8221; here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP, which stands for &#8220;Agents of France Posse&#8221;, reports Blair refuses to accept US award, by which they mean the Congressional Medal of Honor: BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is refusing to fly to the US to receive a medal bestowed on him by the nation for his support over last year&#8217;s Iraq war, a [&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-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","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=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22942,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/22942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}