{"id":943,"date":"2007-02-15T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/15\/the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-men\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T22:05:42","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T03:05:42","slug":"the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/15\/the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"the best laid plans of mice and men&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"314\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/%7Ensarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB214\/notional_force.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/15\/washington\/15military.html?hp&#038;ex=1171602000&#038;en=ad512b1b8c4bfb32&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\"><strong>A Prewar Slide Show Cast Iraq in Rosy Hues<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his top officers gathered in August 2002 to review an invasion plan for Iraq, it reflected a decidedly upbeat vision of what the country would look like four years after Saddam Hussein was ousted from power. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Prewar Slide Show Cast Iraq in Rosy Hues When Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his top officers gathered in August 2002 to review an invasion plan for Iraq, it reflected a decidedly upbeat vision of what the country would look like four years after Saddam Hussein was ousted from power.<\/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-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}