{"id":112,"date":"2008-12-16T12:48:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2008-12-16T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:48:47","slug":"signs-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Signs of progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard from a chorus of conservative pundits&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s a sign of progress in Iraq that Iraqi reporter Muntader al-Zaidi felt safe enough to throw a shoe at President Bush&#8221;.  Or at least it will be if he survives the reported beatings and torture he is enduring.<\/p>\n<p>Note to movie and TV writers: this would be an appropriate use of the word quantum, as in, &#8220;This is a sign of a quantum of progress in Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard from a chorus of conservative pundits&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s a sign of progress in Iraq that Iraqi reporter Muntader al-Zaidi felt safe enough to throw a shoe at President Bush&#8221;. Or at least it will be if he survives the reported beatings and torture he is enduring. Note to movie and TV writers: this would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}