{"id":7017,"date":"2003-07-29T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/29\/7017\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T05:47:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:47:32","slug":"7017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/29\/7017\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Population Brought Into 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/010670.php\" target=\"new\">The Professor<\/a> links to an <a href=\"http:\/\/famulus.msnbc.com\/FamulusIntl\/reuters07-29-025137.asp?reg=MIDEAST\" target=\"new\">article<\/a> about the drive of Iraqis to learn English.  It&#8217;s a neat piece, but here&#8217;s the most telling quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221;We have not seen anything from the United States of what they promised,&#8221; he said. &#8221;I want to help them help me.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This particular Iraqi wants the United States to provide him with fresh water, electricity, phone service, and who knows what else.  He wants <i>the United States government<\/i> to <i>help him personally<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like these people are well on their way to the American form of government already.  For whom can he vote to receive the best goodies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Professor links to an article about the drive of Iraqis to learn English. It&#8217;s a neat piece, but here&#8217;s the most telling quote: &#8221;We have not seen anything from the United States of what they promised,&#8221; he said. &#8221;I want to help them help me.&#8221; This particular Iraqi wants the United States to provide [&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-7017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017","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=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21287,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions\/21287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}