{"id":1518,"date":"2007-09-04T14:18:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T19:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/parameters-iv-mini-benchmarks\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T20:30:06","slug":"parameters-iv-mini-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/parameters-iv-mini-benchmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Parameters IV: mini-benchmarks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-surge4sep04,0,3817546.story?coll=la-home-center\"><strong>Troop buildup fails to reconcile Iraq<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Positive note\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2007-09\/32303107.jpg\" title=\"Positive note\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>POSITIVE NOTE: <\/strong>&ldquo;There are &#8230; if you will, mini-benchmarks where things are happening,&rdquo; said U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">I can&#8217;t stop giggling at the term &quot;mini-benchmarks.&quot; Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/052185.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TPM<\/strong><\/a> for pointing us to this absurdity. I&#8217;ll get back to the article when I can keep a straight face [which may be never!]&#8230;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troop buildup fails to reconcile Iraq &nbsp; POSITIVE NOTE: &ldquo;There are &#8230; if you will, mini-benchmarks where things are happening,&rdquo; said U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker. I can&#8217;t stop giggling at the term &quot;mini-benchmarks.&quot; Thanks to TPM for pointing us to this absurdity. I&#8217;ll get back to the article when I can keep a straight face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}