{"id":143,"date":"2003-12-15T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2003\/12\/143.html"},"modified":"2003-12-15T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T00:02:00","slug":"occasional-poster-kim-made-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2003\/12\/occasional-poster-kim-made-really.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<br \/>Occasional poster Kim made a really interesting observation which I think is worthy of a post.  <\/p>\n<p>Rummy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokr13.tv\/news\/national\/story.aspx?content_id=54E5D39B-8B39-48B9-9240-C8012EABAD50\">said<\/a> that Saddam was to be treated as a POW.  Okay, but didn&#8217;t we make a huge deal about our POW&#8217;s being trotted out on camera and shown off to the world like trophies?  So why was is okay to show Saddam&#8217;s medical exam and post pictures of his disheveled self all over the TV?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s understandable why we did it, but it&#8217;s a bit hypocritical, don&#8217;t you think?<\/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>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Occasional poster Kim made a really interesting observation which I think is worthy of a post. Rummy said that<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2003\/12\/occasional-poster-kim-made-really.html\" title=\"Read \">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-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}