{"id":561,"date":"2008-07-15T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T08:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=561"},"modified":"2008-07-15T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T08:05:01","slug":"pay-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Pay Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=1606\">To this statistic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>The Gravity of the Situation in Afghanistan<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just to put this in perspective: There have been 556 Americans killed<br \/>\nin Afghanistan since 2001.  64 of them&#8211;nearly 12 percent&#8211;have been<br \/>\nkilled in the last six weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>Obama intends <a href=\"http:\/\/origin.barackobama.com\/issues\/iraq\/\">to remove troops from Iraq<\/a> and instead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/14\/opinion\/14obama.html\">fortify our troops in Afghanistan<\/a>, which is where we should have been focused all along. Iraq was a mistake and a distraction, and McCain still doesn&#8217;t realize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To this statistic: The Gravity of the Situation in Afghanistan Just to put this in perspective: There have been 556 Americans killed in Afghanistan since 2001. 64 of them&#8211;nearly 12 percent&#8211;have been killed in the last six weeks. Obama intends to remove troops from Iraq and instead fortify our troops in Afghanistan, which is where we should have been focused all along. Iraq was a mistake and a distraction, and McCain still doesn&#8217;t realize it.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=561\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-93","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}