{"id":245,"date":"2006-11-08T20:16:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2006-11-08T20:16:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T00:16:42","slug":"victory-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Victory celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bloke who came to fix our washing machine yesterday turned out to be an ex-squaddie, who had left the army after being blown out of a troop carrier by an <span class=\"caps\">IED <\/span>which killed one of his mates. He was not in the least bit anti-war, though he said Iraq was hell: &#8220;You have to watch your back all the time, from everyone, even the Iraqi police&#8221;. But he despised the Americans. &#8220;Our motto is &#8216;one shot; one kill.&#8217; Theirs is &#8216;One magazine: maybe we&#8217;ll get someone&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>He would have rejoiced in the election results, though, and I like to believe that a similar sentiment lay behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2443885,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&amp;attr=Britain\">this story<\/a> of another squaddie, a rocket, and his arsehole.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is also possible, though less likely, that something similar was what George W Bush meant when he talked about the &#8220;thoughtful conversations&#8221; he had had with Rumsfeld before sacking him. I mean, which one of them could be trusted to put the rocket in the right way round?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bloke who came to fix our washing machine yesterday turned out to be an ex-squaddie, who had left the army after being blown out of a troop carrier by an <span class=\"caps\">IED <\/span>which killed one of his mates. He was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/245"}],"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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}