{"id":2228,"date":"2006-06-15T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T02:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/2500-and-counting-252-bodies-to-911-iraq-parity-day\/"},"modified":"2006-06-15T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T02:42:07","slug":"2500-and-counting-252-bodies-to-911-iraq-parity-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/2500-and-counting-252-bodies-to-911-iraq-parity-day\/","title":{"rendered":"2500 and counting, 252 bodies to 911 iraq parity day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>back in february,  i introduced the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/place_your_bets_911_iraq_parity_day.html\">911 iraq parity day<\/a>,  because while there is no connection between 911 and iraq,  i guess we needed one.  so, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060615\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/us_iraq2;_ylt=Ajq9NDFg4XwyX86ONXhO8Dqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--\" class=\"broken_link\">news<\/a> that the american death toll in iraq has reached &#8220;a number&#8221; [according to white house press secretary tony snow], that number is now just 252 short of the number of americans killed on 911.<\/p>\n<p>at the moment, the bigger number is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.net\/\">between 38355 and 42747<\/a>, but we don&#8217;t do body counts (we do do damage assessment).<\/p>\n<p>so, i encourage you to drop in on the original <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/place_your_bets_911_iraq_parity_day.html\">post<\/a> and get your bets in the comments.  after all, at this rate (60-80\/month), we&#8217;re just a few months away from 911 Iraq Parity Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>back in february, i introduced the concept of 911 iraq parity day, because while there is no connection between 911 and iraq, i guess we needed one. so, with the news that the american death toll in iraq has reached &#8220;a number&#8221; [according to white house press secretary tony snow], that number is now just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}