{"id":534,"date":"2007-01-16T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=534"},"modified":"2007-01-16T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T17:27:12","slug":"the-cold-war-was-a-spending-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/the-cold-war-was-a-spending-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cold War Was A Spending War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;we won the Cold War without ever<br \/>\nhaving to match armies and nuclear arsenals<br \/>\nwith the Soviet Union,&#8221; say<br \/>\nHenry Allen&#8217;s Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>THAT war was run by proxies<br \/>\nwith little or no Russian or American<br \/>\nblood spilled but blood was spilled<br \/>\nproxie Afghan blood<br \/>\nproxie Indonesia blood<br \/>\nTHEN what happened?<br \/>\nwe could not proxie the Vietnam War!<br \/>\nWHY is America trying again<br \/>\nfor proxies in Afghanistan and Iraq?<br \/>\nOIL!<br \/>\ngOTTA feed The tiGer in our tank?<br \/>\nHow much blood does it take to make one gallon of gas?<br \/>\nI DON&#8217;T KNOW!<br \/>\nOne drop of blood per gallon or a zillion?<br \/>\nHow much blood per gallon is too much?<br \/>\nYou tell me SUV!<br \/>\nOne things fer sure<br \/>\nthe ratio is growing exponentially!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;we won the Cold War without ever having to match armies and nuclear arsenals with the Soviet Union,&#8221; say Henry Allen&#8217;s Washington Post. THAT war was run by proxies with little or no Russian or American blood spilled but blood was spilled proxie Afghan blood proxie Indonesia blood THEN what happened? we could not proxie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/the-cold-war-was-a-spending-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cold War Was A Spending War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-spammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}