{"id":240,"date":"2003-03-21T00:44:35","date_gmt":"2003-03-21T07:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/03\/21\/shock-and-awe\/"},"modified":"2003-03-21T00:44:35","modified_gmt":"2003-03-21T07:44:35","slug":"shock-and-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/03\/21\/shock-and-awe\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock and awe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shock and Awe&#8221; is in effect. CNN is showing images of massive                 bombardment of Baghdad. Three cities and the peninsula that contains                 the oil are under coalition (US) control. Turkey is sending soldiers                 to the Kurdish section of Northern Iraq. The US is warning them                 not to \u2013 did US military advisors really believe this wouldn&#8217;t                 happen? This feels like a domino effect for a worldwide event \u2013 the                 queasy feeling grows. I feel like wanting to hibernate, putting                 my possessions in storage and traveling. The only thing that                 keeps me from doing this is the knowledge of having a BA in a                 month-and-a-half. That, and I&#8217;m receiving a lot of freelance               work (three new clients this month!).<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/03\/21\/shock-and-awe\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shock and Awe&#8221; is in effect. CNN is showing images of massive bombardment of Baghdad. Three cities and the peninsula that contains the oil are under coalition (US) control. Turkey is sending soldiers to the Kurdish section of Northern Iraq. The US is warning them not to \u2013 did US military advisors really believe this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/03\/21\/shock-and-awe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shock and awe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/03\/21\/shock-and-awe\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}