{"id":1125,"date":"2003-04-17T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2003-04-18T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/17\/long-day\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:31:38","slug":"long-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/17\/long-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Long day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick bits, because I&#8217;m too worn out to bother with anything more in-depth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rumsfeld is now admitting that we probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A47942-2003Apr17.html\" title=\"Bioweapons May Be Hard to Find\">won&#8217;t find any WMDs<\/a>. So much for <em>that<\/em> justification. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyvalleyasylum.com\/ratched\/archives\/000635.php\" title=\"Nurse Ratched's Notebook: Search for WMDs still on\">Nurse Ratched<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>UN Inspector Hans Blix continues to assert that there likely are no WMDs in Iraq, and that the justification for invasion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story.html?StoryID=15666\" title=\"The Elusive Weapons Of Mass Destruction\">was a sham<\/a>. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/overground.blogspot.com\/2003_04_13_overground_archive.html#200163234\" title=\"The War Is Over (almost, supposedly); Do You Know Where Your Weapons Are?\">Tom<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Two of Bush&#8217;s cultural advisors have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A46804-2003Apr17.html\" title=\"Bush Cultural Advisers Quit Over Iraq Museum Theft\">resigned in protest<\/a> over the lack of protection for Iraq&#8217;s museums and libraries. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/iraq\/tombrown\/archives\/000823.html\" title=\"Cultural advisors quit over antiquities issue\">Katherine Long<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The American Prospect asks, quite rightly, why so much of the American public seems to placidly accept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/print\/V14\/5\/bennett-d.html\" title=\"All the President's Lies\">Bush&#8217;s baldfaced lies<\/a>. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalilily.net\/weblog\/03\/04\/17\/115538.html\" title=\"Hypocrisy democracy.\">Elaine<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Kirsten picks up on the Syria\/WMD story that <a href=\"\/longletter\/archives\/2003\/04\/17\/syrias_political_brilliance.php\" title=\"Syria's political brilliance\">I linked yesterday<\/a> and gives it a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/001416.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: Check...mate?\">chess metaphor<\/a> that puts my &#8220;here&#8217;s a link, go read it&#8221; style to shame. I <em>knew<\/em> I was going to enjoy giving that girl a website!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick bits, because I&#8217;m too worn out to bother with anything more in-depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}