{"id":13650,"date":"2012-01-12T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2012-01-12T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:04:06","slug":"regarding-rising-tensions-in-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/regarding-rising-tensions-in-the-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Regarding &#8220;rising tensions in the Gulf&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pearl of wisdom from a Union private crossing the Rappahannock into Fredericksburg, December 1862:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shit! They <i>want<\/i> us to get <i>in<\/i>. Getting <i>out<\/i> won&#8217;t be quite so smart and easy. You&#8217;ll see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently Shelby Foote&#8217;s <i><b>The Civil War: A Narrative<\/b><\/i> hasn&#8217;t worked its way into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/iran\/9009154\/Second-US-aircraft-carrier-arrives-in-the-Gulf-as-Iran-tensions-rise.html\" target=\"_blank\">US naval doctrine<\/a> yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearl of wisdom from a Union private crossing the Rappahannock into Fredericksburg, December 1862: Shit! They want us to get in. Getting out won&#8217;t be quite so smart and easy. You&#8217;ll see. Apparently Shelby Foote&#8217;s The Civil War: A Narrative hasn&#8217;t worked its way into US naval doctrine yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[17,11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-mideast"],"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\/13650","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\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13652,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions\/13652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}