{"id":601,"date":"2006-01-29T22:45:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T03:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2006-01-29T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T03:45:46","slug":"embed-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Embed this."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently, a reporter and his cameraman <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060130\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/woodruff_iraq\">were blown up in Iraq<\/a>. Or at least partially blown up, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought long and hard about this, and after careful deliberation, my official stance is &#8220;BFD&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>These yay-hoos knew what was going on when they went for the glory over there (and that&#8217;s really all it is, after all), and now they get a little too close to the action and are being treated like American heroes. Without going off on a patriotic rant here, there&#8217;s alot worse shit happening to alot more heroic people over there.<\/p>\n<p>Worst example I&#8217;ve seen so far? CNN, currently entering it&#8217;s second half-hour (at least) of coverage on this, has gone to the banner line &#8220;TV TEAM ATTACKED&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well hell, if it&#8217;s the TV teams they&#8217;re after, why didn&#8217;t we bring the networks home years ago? We coulda had this thing sewn up in a flash!<\/p>\n<p>In other, apparently less interesting news in the region, Saddam Hussein continues to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060130\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq_saddam_trial\">make a mockery<\/a> of his &#8220;trial&#8221;. Foreign policy aside, this thing would have been alot better off if one of the grunts that found him &#8220;accidentally&#8221; shot him in the mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently, a reporter and his cameraman were blown up in Iraq. Or at least partially blown up, I guess. I&#8217;ve thought long and hard about this, and after careful deliberation, my official stance is &#8220;BFD&#8221;. These yay-hoos knew what was going on when they went for the glory over there (and that&#8217;s really all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Embed this.<\/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":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}