{"id":1103,"date":"2009-05-30T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/05\/afghanistan-beats-the-pants-off-us.html"},"modified":"2009-05-30T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T12:52:00","slug":"afghanistan-beats-pants-off-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/05\/afghanistan-beats-pants-off-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Beats the Pants Off Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the rugged terrain of the Afghan mountains is taking it&#8217;s toll not only on our soldiers, but on their uniforms.  In response, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13639_3-10249797-42.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\">army is rolling out newly designed pants<\/a> made of heavier material and with built in knee and seat pads.  Certainly not high tech stuff, but it does sound pretty useful to the guys in the field.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really amazing though is that the development of these new pants was started over a year ago, and deployment of the improved trousers is not expected until this time next year.  Maybe this is more complicated than I&#8217;m thinking, but it seems incredible that it takes 2 years to get new and improved pants on our soldiers.  I&#8217;m betting the army could have worked with Levi&#8217;s and had these pants on the shelves at Sears by the start of school in the fall.  Government efficiency at its finest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the rugged terrain of the Afghan mountains is taking it&#8217;s toll not only on our soldiers, but on<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/05\/afghanistan-beats-pants-off-us.html\" title=\"Read Afghanistan Beats the Pants Off Us\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}