{"id":6748,"date":"2003-04-22T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/22\/6748\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:24:25","slug":"6748","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/22\/6748\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnabout Is Fore Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Shocking!<\/b>  Apparently, Saddam Hussein was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2003\/04\/22\/ngall22.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2003\/04\/22\/ixnewstop.html\" target=\"new\">paying off<\/a> at least one person in the west that opposed the war against his regime.<\/p>\n<p>You mean they <i>bought off<\/i> members of the opposition so they <i>wouldn&#8217;t fight<\/i>?  Whereever did he learn that trick?<\/p>\n<p>(Story discovered via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\" target=\"new\">Little Green Footballs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denbeste.nu\" target=\"top\">Den Beste<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking! Apparently, Saddam Hussein was paying off at least one person in the west that opposed the war against his regime. You mean they bought off members of the opposition so they wouldn&#8217;t fight? Whereever did he learn that trick? (Story discovered via Little Green Footballs and Den Beste.)<\/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-6748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748","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=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23409,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions\/23409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}