{"id":584,"date":"2011-02-08T19:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=584"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:24","slug":"and-now-heres-dumbsfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/02\/and-now-heres-dumbsfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now, Rumsfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think your unwelcome uncle has finally packed his suitcase and gone home, not to be seen again, and you allow yourself a sigh of relief&#8230; oh my god, he&#8217;s back again.\u00a0 This time he is on a book tour, and thanks to the publicity machine that is the news media, you and I are made to revisit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-02-04\/rumsfeld-comes-out-jabbing-has-no-regrets-for-abu-ghraib-wmds-review.html\">all the stuff<\/a> that made us tire of him in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that writing a book (and promoting it) always seems to make a public figure smarter and more honorable than anyone remembered?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think your unwelcome uncle has finally packed his suitcase and gone home, not to be seen again, and you allow yourself a sigh of relief&#8230; oh my god, he&#8217;s back again.\u00a0 This time he is on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/02\/and-now-heres-dumbsfeld\/\">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-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}