{"id":1201,"date":"2004-05-23T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2004-05-23T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2004-05-23T14:46:47","slug":"iranian-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Iranian laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nynewsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/ny-uschal0522,0,3862477,print.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines\">whole glorious story<\/a> of how the Iranian intelligence service used Ahmed Chalabi to con the Americans into destroying Saddam Hussein for them has one final, delicious twist. This really has been a war to end wars. It will be very hard for a while to sell the American people &#8212; even the American army &#8212; a war of choice again. And who was next on the list for a war of choice? Iran. It is really astonishing how much cleverer the mullahs have been than their opponents.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole glorious story of how the Iranian intelligence service used Ahmed Chalabi to con the Americans into destroying Saddam Hussein for them has one final, delicious twist. This really has been a war to end wars. It will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}