{"id":1066,"date":"2011-06-19T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T02:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:23","slug":"what-if-a-nato-missile-hit-my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/06\/what-if-a-nato-missile-hit-my-home\/","title":{"rendered":"What if a NATO Missile Hit My Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we discovered that a pair of woodchucks (groundhogs) have taken up residence in the boulder wall above our driveway.\u00a0 They seem to enjoy the ready supply of greens in our landscape, a garden buffet at their doorstep if you will.\u00a0 Tomorrow, I figure out how to convince them to move elsewhere, before our plantings suffer and our wall is undermined.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Libya, a NATO missile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/world\/124166843.html\">has killed several people<\/a> (<em>civilians<\/em> they are called under some circumstances, <em>bystanders <\/em>at other times, <em>innocents<\/em> somewhat rarely) who had the misfortune of being near its intended target, Col. Muammar Khadafi.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between my being alive and my being collateral damage: where I live and what my neighbor does.\u00a0 I am fortunate that I live in the USA and that my neighbor is not a terrorist.\u00a0 If were a Libyan, having a woodchuck living next door would probably be OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we discovered that a pair of woodchucks (groundhogs) have taken up residence in the boulder wall above our driveway.\u00a0 They seem to enjoy the ready supply of greens in our landscape, a garden buffet at their doorstep if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/06\/what-if-a-nato-missile-hit-my-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}