{"id":1055,"date":"2004-06-14T18:26:42","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T01:26:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-14T18:26:42","modified_gmt":"2004-06-15T01:26:42","slug":"neither-rain-nor-sleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/14\/neither-rain-nor-sleet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Neither rain nor sleet&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst this glowing account, <i> <a href=\"http:\/\/famulus.msnbc.com\/famulusintl\/reuters06-13-180507.asp?reg=mideast&#038;vts=61320042000\">Better days beckon for Baghdad&#8217;s weary postmen,<\/i><\/a> about the dedication of the workers and all the improvements being made to the &#8220;new&#8221; Iraqi postal system, be sure not to miss the following sentence:<\/p>\n<ul><i>&#8221;Hopefully within the next few months we should be back to pre-war service levels.&#8221; <\/ul>\n<p><\/i>Although &#8220;major combat&#8221; ended over a year ago, the Coalition can&#8217;t seem to get the Iraqi post office up and running any more than it can get the electricity and water flowing at their pre-war levels.  <\/p>\n<p>Shame!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst this glowing account, Better days beckon for Baghdad&#8217;s weary postmen, about the dedication of the workers and all the improvements being made to the &#8220;new&#8221; Iraqi postal system, be sure not to miss the following sentence: &#8221;Hopefully within the next few months we should be back to pre-war service levels.&#8221; Although &#8220;major combat&#8221; ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}