{"id":98,"date":"2004-11-20T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T09:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=98"},"modified":"2004-11-20T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T09:03:13","slug":"the-monkey-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"The monkey trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with some friends last night about Iraq, and how it&#8217;s like the traps set for monkeys &#8211; a coconut with a hole and some rice inside, the hole big enough to put a hand through but not to pull out when the hand is full of rice. The monkey is trapped because he won&#8217;t let go of the rice and pull his hand free.<br \/>\nIn my view, the &#8220;rice&#8221; for Bush and the neo-cons is the permanent bases they want so badly and won&#8217;t let go of. And oil, of course, there&#8217;s always oil.<br \/>\nAnyway, as it turns out, William Raspberry already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn?pagename=article&#038;node=&#038;contentId=A50922-2003Oct19&#038;notFound=true\">thought of this analogy a year ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with some friends last night about Iraq, and how it&#8217;s like the traps set for monkeys &#8211; a coconut with a hole and some rice inside, the hole big enough to put a hand through but not to pull out when the hand is full of rice. The monkey is trapped because he won&#8217;t let go of the rice and pull his hand free. In my view, the &#8220;rice&#8221; for Bush and the neo-cons is the permanent bases they want so badly and won&#8217;t let go of. And oil, of course, there&#8217;s always oil. Anyway, as it <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=98\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}