{"id":355,"date":"2014-09-01T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/?p=355"},"modified":"2014-09-01T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:48:00","slug":"the-devil-you-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/2014\/09\/01\/the-devil-you-know-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world tries to figure out what to do about ISIS, it makes me think of those non-existent WMDs. \u00a0Saddam Hussein was an SOB no doubt. But a known SOB and boxed in to a certain extent. Iraq and Syria are a long way from me and I don&#8217;t really understand all the factions and who&#8217;s who. I wonder how many people over there think they&#8217;re better off now than before? I don&#8217;t know. From here though it seems like a few trillion dollars and thousands of lives could have been saved with no less and quite possibly a better situation. We&#8217;ll never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world tries to figure out what to do about ISIS, it makes me think of those non-existent WMDs. \u00a0Saddam Hussein was an SOB no doubt. But a known SOB and boxed in to a certain extent. Iraq and Syria are a long way from me and I don&#8217;t really understand all the factions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}