{"id":1927,"date":"2005-02-04T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2018-07-19T08:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:07:20","slug":"1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/04\/1927\/","title":{"rendered":"It Could Be Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Bainbridge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/2005\/02\/book_review_beb.html\" target=\"_new\">muses<\/a> on Donald Rumsfeld&#8217;s reluctance to go to Germany:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So Donald Rumsfeld is afraid to go to Germany because he might get arrested on war crimes charges. So much for the NATO alliance, eh?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s only on the good end of the spectrum.  There&#8217;s always a chance that German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and some of his other leather clad apparatachiks might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/europe\/magazine\/2001\/0122\/fischer.html\" target=\"_new\">firebomb his motorcade<\/a> or beat him to death with a brick.<\/p>\n<p>Because that&#8217;s the caliber of leaders to which some would have America aspire, or to whom America should kowtow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Bainbridge muses on Donald Rumsfeld&#8217;s reluctance to go to Germany: So Donald Rumsfeld is afraid to go to Germany because he might get arrested on war crimes charges. So much for the NATO alliance, eh? Well, that&#8217;s only on the good end of the spectrum. There&#8217;s always a chance that German Foreign Minister Joschka [&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-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","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=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20591,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/20591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}