{"id":8991,"date":"2011-02-19T07:32:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T13:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2011-02-19T07:32:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T13:32:47","slug":"a-good-metric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/19\/a-good-metric\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Metric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/02\/17\/us-iraq-usa-damages-idUSTRE71G2T820110217\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq wants the US to pay for damage to Baghdad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraq&#8217;s capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s government issued its demands in a statement on Wednesday that said Baghdad&#8217;s infrastructure and aesthetics have been seriously damaged by the American military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badexample2.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/upside.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey zooms in on this piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baghdad&#8217;s neighborhoods have been sealed off by miles of concrete blast walls, transforming the city into a tangled maze that contributes to massive traffic jams. Despite a sharp reduction in overall violence in recent years only 5 percent of the walls have been removed, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harvey sez:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBaghdad&#8217;s biggest problem isn&#8217;t secret police, torture rooms, mass graves, or a brutal dictator with a bad moustache, it&#8217;s traffic jams.<\/p>\n<p>I think that means we won. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say: <em>Almost<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t truly have won until Baghdad has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24thstate.com\/2011\/01\/the-key-to-attracting-young-urban-professionals-throwing-government-money-at-fads.html?cid=6a0120a772b381970b0147e15ebfe1970b\" target=\"_blank\">built enough bike paths, banned indoor smoking, and issued enough personal diversity statements<\/a>.  And maybe graduated enough <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/11\/doubtless-he-holds-an-advanced-degree\/\" target=\"_blank\">comic book historians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq wants the US to pay for damage to Baghdad: Iraq&#8217;s capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. The city&#8217;s government issued its demands in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","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=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}