{"id":14192,"date":"2015-01-12T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14192"},"modified":"2015-01-12T10:06:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:06:02","slug":"there-was-one-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/there-was-one-man\/","title":{"rendered":"There Was One Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With terrorists operating with impunity in tribal areas of Pakistan, there was one man who could bring order to the provinces.<\/p>\n<p>A decorated veteran, he turned his back on the military until he was drawn reluctantly back into battle.<\/p>\n<p>Older now, a world-weary sportsman leaps from his patrol boat with nothing but his M-16 and his determination to set things right.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kerry II: The Warlords of Pakistan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The movie has already been written from this headline:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/usandworld\/national\/kerry-in-pakistan-to-shore-up-counterterror-cooperation82edeb337e7d4a04b414cca43119a198-288244991.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry in Pakistan to shore up counterterror cooperation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll blurb it:  &#8220;Reminiscent of Genghis Khan!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With terrorists operating with impunity in tribal areas of Pakistan, there was one man who could bring order to the provinces. A decorated veteran, he turned his back on the military until he was drawn reluctantly back into battle. Older now, a world-weary sportsman leaps from his patrol boat with nothing but his M-16 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192","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=14192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14194,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}