{"id":95,"date":"2006-03-19T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/wordpress\/?p=95"},"modified":"2006-03-19T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T04:30:00","slug":"happy-birthday-um-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/19\/happy-birthday-um-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, um, Iraq War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little unsure as to how to date the beginning of the war. Wikipedia pegs 20 Mar 2003 02:30 UTC, with explosions being heard in Baghdad, as the beginning. That&#8217;s 5:30 a.m. local Baghdad time, so UTC and Baghdad time both put it on 20 March. But that&#8217;s also 9:30 p.m. EST, which is my time, Washington DC time, the White House and Pentagon time.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, today is Sunday, which is major op-ed day here in America. And today we see major, and really rather competing, pieces in the <em>New York Times<\/em> and the <em>Washington Post<\/em> on this most august anniversary. The <em>Post<\/em> has Donald Rumsfeld, who writes, &#8220;The terrorists seem to recognize that they are losing in Iraq.&#8221; On the other hand, the <em>Times<\/em> carries a piece from recently retired Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, formerly the commanding general of the rebuilding of the Iraqi armed forces and security forces. Says he, &#8220;Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is not competent to lead our armed forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little unsure as to how to date the beginning of the war. Wikipedia pegs 20 Mar 2003 02:30 UTC, with explosions being heard in Baghdad, as the beginning. That&#8217;s 5:30 a.m. local Baghdad time, so UTC and Baghdad time both put it on 20 March. But that&#8217;s also 9:30 p.m. EST, which is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/19\/happy-birthday-um-iraq-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday, um, Iraq War?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}