{"id":2872,"date":"2006-01-01T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2017-12-22T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:48:13","slug":"call-the-guinness-people-ap-finds-a-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/01\/call-the-guinness-people-ap-finds-a-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Call the Guinness People: AP Finds a New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews1.iwon.com\/\/article\/20060101\/D8ERIBS83.html?PG=home&#038;SEC=news\" target=\"_new\">U.S. Toll for Year in Iraq Nears &#8217;04 Mark<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Bombings and shootings killed at least 20 people across Iraq on the final day of the year Saturday, while U.S. troops shivered in the cold during a performance by an &#8220;American Idol&#8221; singer as part of New Year&#8217;s Eve celebrations. The U.S. military also reported the death of an American soldier from wounds, bringing its death toll in Iraq for 2005 near <b>last year&#8217;s record level<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would say, &#8220;Give me a break,&#8221; but Associated Press is not doing us any favors.  Let&#8217;s recap the timeline:<\/p>\n<p>2003: The United States invades in late March and faces an enemy that largely surrenders.  US faces 9 months of combat and occupancy.<br \/>\n2004: The first full year of occupation, and the year which the &#8220;record&#8221; was set.<br \/>\n2005: The second full year of occupation, and the year in which the record is almost matched.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it; a record of long-standing.  Well, we Americans are told that we&#8217;re always hungering for the bigger and better things all the time, with baseball players chasing home run records every year and whatnot.  I guess Associated Press is just trying to feed our interest in meeting or exceeding records every year, even if it has to manufacture those records out of whole cloth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Toll for Year in Iraq Nears &#8217;04 Mark: Bombings and shootings killed at least 20 people across Iraq on the final day of the year Saturday, while U.S. troops shivered in the cold during a performance by an &#8220;American Idol&#8221; singer as part of New Year&#8217;s Eve celebrations. The U.S. military also reported 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-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","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=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18995,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/18995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}