{"id":2665,"date":"2004-07-12T04:34:17","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/12\/the-terrorists-have-already-won\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:43:53","slug":"the-terrorists-have-already-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/12\/the-terrorists-have-already-won\/","title":{"rendered":"The terrorists have already won"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10604,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/ALLPOLITICS\\\/07\\\/11\\\/election.day.delay\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251130054025\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/ALLPOLITICS\\\/07\\\/11\\\/election.day.delay\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:41:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:41:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay, let me get this straight. Because we&#8217;re worried about a terrorist attack disrupting the election process, we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/07\/11\/election.day.delay\/index.html\" title=\"Officials discuss how to delay Election Day\">planning to disrupt the election process<\/a> in the event of a terrorist attack?<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t even start to make sense to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Breakfast in Vegas (Greasy Eggs and a Line to Go)&#8221; by Khan, Praga from the album <em>Breakfast in Vegas<\/em> (1999, 5:49).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, let me get this straight. Because we&#8217;re worried about a terrorist attack disrupting the election process, we&#8217;re planning to disrupt the election process in the event of a terrorist attack? That doesn&#8217;t even start to make sense to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}