{"id":982,"date":"2003-03-17T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2003-03-17T15:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/03\/17\/982.html"},"modified":"2003-03-17T10:38:33","modified_gmt":"2003-03-17T15:38:33","slug":"sunset-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/03\/17\/sunset-in-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset in Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It's more or less 6:30pm in Baghdad, unless I'm very much mistaken, and the sun's been down for twenty minutes or so. It looks like there may be war before dawn. Or maybe tomorrow - same bagh-time, same bagh-channel.\n<p>I am still ambivalent about the whole enterprise, but that's not really an issue now. Now we hope, and the prayerfully minded pray, for the best possible outcome: a quick surrender, few deaths, a rebuilding accomplished with skill and delicacy, a sobering reminder of the responsibilities and obligations of being (as we have now proclaimed ourselves to be) the world's policeman.\n\n<p>How do you like our new mantle? Heavy, isn't it?\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s more or less 6:30pm in Baghdad, unless I&#8217;m very much mistaken, and the sun&#8217;s been down for twenty minutes or so. It looks like there may be war before dawn. Or maybe tomorrow &#8211; same bagh-time, same bagh-channel. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}