{"id":3612,"date":"2009-12-20T23:14:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T03:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2009-12-20T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T03:16:08","slug":"wait-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/12\/20\/wait-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/12\/20\/817271\/-Phantom-Hope:-The-Afghan-Army\">This piece<\/a> over at dKos just highlighted a recent NATO request that I&#8217;d not heard about.\u00c2\u00a0 And what was that?\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5BF38D20091216\">They asked Russia for helicopters to use in Afghanistan.<\/a> Because, you know, that worked out so well last time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3614  aligncenter\" title=\"afghan\" src=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/afghan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/afghan1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/afghan1-150x103.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you think the person who thought that up understood the irony of it?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they could suggest ground delivery, with BMPs and T-62s providing security?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece over at dKos just highlighted a recent NATO request that I&#8217;d not heard about.\u00c2\u00a0 And what was that?\u00c2\u00a0 They asked Russia for helicopters to use in Afghanistan. Because, you know, that worked out so well last time: Do you think the person who thought that up understood the irony of it?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}