{"id":289,"date":"2004-07-29T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=289"},"modified":"2004-07-29T08:30:58","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T15:30:58","slug":"lileks-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Lileks on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/04\/0704\/072904.html\">screedy goodness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>you all remember the epic account of my Ten Service Calls to get the TV working.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This is why I am not completely undone by the news that it may take a while to fully electrify Iraq. It took DirecTV ten attempts to fix one dish, and no one was shooting at the techs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much screedy goodness: you all remember the epic account of my Ten Service Calls to get the TV working. This is why I am not completely undone by the news that it may take a while to fully electrify Iraq. It took DirecTV ten attempts to fix one dish, and no one was shooting at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=289\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lileks on Iraq&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}