{"id":49,"date":"2003-03-27T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-27T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2014-05-21T11:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:23:52","slug":"more-war-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/more-war-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"more war fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A few miles from the bridge to the south lie the ruins of the ancient city of Ur, founded 8,000 years ago, the birth place of Abraham and a flourishing metropolis at a time when the inhabitants of north-west Europe were still walking round in animal skins.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Sprague, from White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, passed it on his way north, but he never knew it was there.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;I&#8217;ve been all the way through this desert from Basra to here and I ain&#8217;t seen one shopping mall or fast food restaurant,&#8217;<\/em> he said. <em>&#8220;These people got nothing. Even in a little town like ours of twenty five hundred people you got a McDonald&#8217;s at one end and a Hardee&#8217;s at the other.<\/em>&#8216;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,3604,921356,00.html\">Guardian Unlimited 25\/3\/03<\/a>. Thanks to Mike Holderness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A few miles from the bridge to the south lie the ruins of the ancient city of Ur, founded 8,000 years ago, the birth place of Abraham and a flourishing metropolis at a time when the inhabitants of north-west Europe were still walking round in animal skins. Sgt Sprague, from White Sulphur Springs in West &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/more-war-fever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;more war fever&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}