{"id":606,"date":"2007-04-02T07:34:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T11:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=606"},"modified":"2007-04-02T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T11:34:36","slug":"arizona-mccain-buys-rugs-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/arizona-mccain-buys-rugs-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona McCain Buys Rugs In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(no, silly, not wigs)<br \/>\nhow much oil did McCain burn to buy<br \/>\n5 Iraqi rugs for $5<br \/>\nto report to Americans<br \/>\n&#8220;Things are improving in Iraq&#8221;<br \/>\nMcCain proved it it<br \/>\nonly took 100 US military guards<br \/>\nand three overhead helicopters<br \/>\nto keep him safe to fly and shop<br \/>\n$1 per rug<br \/>\nper rug equals how many gnarled fingers<br \/>\nweaving how many days?<br \/>\nHow many gnarled fingers, after weaving,<br \/>\nbecame &#8220;collateral&#8221; damage?<br \/>\nToo numerous to mention,<br \/>\nof course. Imagine that.<br \/>\nPersian rugs in Iraq.<br \/>\nIn another time line Mr. McCain<br \/>\nyou may be searching in vain<br \/>\nfor the weavers of these rugs,<br \/>\nto pay them their honest due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(no, silly, not wigs) how much oil did McCain burn to buy 5 Iraqi rugs for $5 to report to Americans &#8220;Things are improving in Iraq&#8221; McCain proved it it only took 100 US military guards and three overhead helicopters to keep him safe to fly and shop $1 per rug per rug equals how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/arizona-mccain-buys-rugs-in-iraq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arizona McCain Buys Rugs In Iraq&#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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}