{"id":1212,"date":"2011-11-08T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T17:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2011-11-08T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T17:18:31","slug":"luck-of-the-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/11\/luck-of-the-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"Luck of the Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/11\/08\/363932\/hume-surge-iraq-worth-it\/\">Hume: The Surge Made The Iraq War Worth It | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I have heard it, the luck of the Irish is that if you fall into a septic tank you will come out with a rose. You still fell into a septic tank, something that most reasonable people would agree is a bad thing, but at least you have a rose!<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Iraq, we jumped into the septic tank. And I&#8217;m not sure that that is a rose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hume: The Surge Made The Iraq War Worth It | ThinkProgress. As I have heard it, the luck of the Irish is that if you fall into a septic tank you will come out with a rose. You still fell into a septic tank, something that most reasonable people would agree is a bad thing, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/11\/luck-of-the-irish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Luck of the Irish<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}