{"id":2133,"date":"2004-07-13T02:42:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T09:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/07\/a-utopia\/"},"modified":"2004-07-13T02:42:59","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T09:42:59","slug":"a-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/13\/a-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"A utopia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAccording to John Kowalski and to Michael Moore, Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Iraq was an idyllic paradise where everyone was happy, healthy, and well-fed, where nobody had any complaints. The trains ran on time, the government was sovereign and legitimate, no government employees worked with banned weapons, and terrorists were the enemy of the state.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what these boys are smoking.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to John Kowalski and to Michael Moore, Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Iraq was an idyllic paradise where everyone was happy, healthy, and well-fed, where nobody had any complaints. The trains ran on time, the government was sovereign and legitimate, no government employees worked with banned weapons, and terrorists were the enemy of the state. I wonder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/13\/a-utopia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A utopia?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-yp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}