{"id":1309,"date":"2009-01-06T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2009-01-06T11:08:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:08:39","slug":"the-gaza-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/01\/06\/the-gaza-bombshell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gaza Bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Vanity Fair article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/04\/gaza200804\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the Vanity Fair article of April 2008 that explains how the current situation in Gaza came to be.<\/p>\n<p>As I posted the above link, I had just read the Huffington Post article that is derived from this one. That article is headlined <strong><a title=\"Huffington Post article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/01\/05\/bush-plan-eliminated-obst_n_155385.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast, I finished reading the Vanity Fair article.\u00a0 It never ceases to amaze me how one can confidently depend on the Bush administration to make things worse.<\/p>\n<p>Now the question is, &#8220;Is it too late to reverse the ill affects of the last 8 years?&#8221;\u00a0 The first law of holes states that, &#8220;If you find yourself stuck in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.&#8221; Perhaps the new administration can start there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the Vanity Fair article of April 2008 that explains how the current situation in Gaza came to be. As I posted the above link, I had just read the Huffington Post article that is derived from this one. That article is headlined Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault. After breakfast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}