{"id":1896,"date":"2010-04-17T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2010-04-17T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T18:01:35","slug":"the-tragedy-of-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/17\/the-tragedy-of-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tragedy of Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My opposition to the war in Afghanistan should be well known to long-time readers of this blog.  There is a movement building across the country to put, in concrete terms, the amount of money being wasted on that boondoggle.   A new video trailer from the <a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/\">Rethink Afghanistan<\/a> project is an eye-opener.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HTPKxjgw5N4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HTPKxjgw5N4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t hurt to go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/\">Rethink Afghanistan<\/a> site and check it out, would it?  They are asking for stories by their readers telling how their communities could use the money being wasted.  As they say on their website, &#8220;What would you want to fix if we could spend those funds here at home, instead of wasting them on a war that&#8217;s not making us safer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My opposition to the war in Afghanistan should be well known to long-time readers of this blog. There is a movement building across the country to put, in concrete terms, the amount of money being wasted on that boondoggle. A <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/17\/the-tragedy-of-empire\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}