{"id":3318,"date":"2006-09-09T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2017-12-14T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:46:53","slug":"the-only-possible-rejoinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/the-only-possible-rejoinder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Possible Rejoinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/meast\/09\/09\/iraq.iran.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">Iraqi PM set to visit Iran<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraq&#8217;s prime minister announced plans to visit Iran on Monday, just days after his deputy returned from the country, accompanied by several top officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whereas some people will no doubt say, &#8220;We toppled Saddam Hussein to make a little Iran?&#8221;, I can only rebut, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a <i><b>free country<\/b><\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi PM set to visit Iran: Iraq&#8217;s prime minister announced plans to visit Iran on Monday, just days after his deputy returned from the country, accompanied by several top officials. Whereas some people will no doubt say, &#8220;We toppled Saddam Hussein to make a little Iran?&#8221;, I can only rebut, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a free country.&#8221;<\/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-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","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=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18561,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/18561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}