{"id":3518,"date":"2006-12-30T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:20:32","slug":"saddam-gets-the-date-graphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/saddam-gets-the-date-graphic\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam Gets The Date Graphic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN, reporting on Saddam Hussein&#8217;s execution, gives Saddam the dark date graphic saved for statesmen and celebrities:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/saddam.jpg\" alt=\"Saddam Hussein death graphic\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m trying to figure out how a tyrant gets this.  Pinochet didn&#8217;t when he died a couple weeks ago.  Is this reverence reserved for cause celebres that one in the media would hope reflected badly on America, or the Bush administration?<\/p>\n<p>I am so cynical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN, reporting on Saddam Hussein&#8217;s execution, gives Saddam the dark date graphic saved for statesmen and celebrities: Me, I&#8217;m trying to figure out how a tyrant gets this. Pinochet didn&#8217;t when he died a couple weeks ago. Is this reverence reserved for cause celebres that one in the media would hope reflected badly on America, [&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-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","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=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18348,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/18348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}