{"id":915,"date":"2004-06-18T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/the-beginning-of-the-october-surprises\/"},"modified":"2004-06-18T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T13:12:11","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-october-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/the-beginning-of-the-october-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"the beginning of the october surprises?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>several months ago,  in meatspace (unfortunately),  i made a comment that the bush administration had so polarized the world that everyone now had a vested interest in the upcoming election &#8211; and i said something to the effect that i thought we&#8217;d see a large number of &#8220;october surprises&#8221; probably starting well before october.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s hard to draw a line in the moving political sands,  but the breaking news this morning is that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/url?ntc=0M0A0&#038;q=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/europe\/06\/18\/russia.warning\/\">Russia &#8216;warned U.S. about Saddam&#8217;<\/a> [cnn].  the story is that saddam was planning terrorist attacks on united states interests both in the united states and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>maybe that&#8217;s the first surprise.  maybe we&#8217;ve already seen a few from interested parties around the world.  anyway, since i was just reminded that i made the comment, i thought i should dump it here too.  i expect all kinds of interesting developments this year as individuals and groups with influence and resources push for or against a particular outcome in november.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>several months ago, in meatspace (unfortunately), i made a comment that the bush administration had so polarized the world that everyone now had a vested interest in the upcoming election &#8211; and i said something to the effect that i thought we&#8217;d see a large number of &#8220;october surprises&#8221; probably starting well before october. it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}