{"id":743,"date":"2004-04-23T04:10:15","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/no-coffins-one-lesson-learned-from-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2004-04-23T04:10:15","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T09:10:15","slug":"no-coffins-one-lesson-learned-from-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/no-coffins-one-lesson-learned-from-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"no coffins &#8211; one lesson learned from vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we may not learn many <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/mistakes_of_vietnam_repeated_with_iraq.html\">lessons<\/a> from previous wars,  but the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/war_president.html\">bush<\/a> administration has definitely learned to <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/news_blackout_on_military_bases.html\">avoid showing<\/a> the price of war.<\/p>\n<p>war has become abstract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;protecting the privacy of the families&#8221; is the official party line.  i&#8217;m just guessing here,  but i think, maybe, some of those families wouldn&#8217;t mind sharing the truth &#8211; war is not abstract to them anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we may not learn many lessons from previous wars, but the bush administration has definitely learned to avoid showing the price of war. war has become abstract. &#8220;protecting the privacy of the families&#8221; is the official party line. i&#8217;m just guessing here, but i think, maybe, some of those families wouldn&#8217;t mind sharing the truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}