{"id":356,"date":"2008-09-28T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T00:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-09-28T00:30:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T00:30:57","slug":"snatching-at-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Snatching at defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watched the US presidential debate with R. I&#8217;m a bit confused. When John McCain says he wants to <em>&#8220;avoid defeat in Iraq&#8221;<\/em> it prompts the question; what the hell would victory look like? What exactly do they expect to happen and what was the planned outcome?<br \/>\nKinda wished someone had asked him that as I don&#8217;t believe he has an answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched the US presidential debate with R. I&#8217;m a bit confused. When John McCain says he wants to &#8220;avoid defeat in Iraq&#8221; it prompts the question; what the hell would victory look like? What exactly do they expect to happen and what was the planned outcome? Kinda wished someone had asked him that as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}