{"id":1482,"date":"2004-11-20T06:17:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-11-20T06:17:42","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T13:17:42","slug":"do-not-adjust-your-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/20\/do-not-adjust-your-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Adjust Your Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s spotlight may be a first in Antiwar.com history. It&#8217;s called &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/paul\/?articleid=4015>Raising the Debt Limit: A Disgrace<\/a>,&#8221; and it does not contain any of the following words: Iraq, Iran, Israel, neoconservative, Bush, empire \u2013 or even war. It doesn&#8217;t need to: it&#8217;s about the national debt, and anyone who reads this site regularly should grasp the relevance immediately. For you newbies, a little background:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/antiwar.com\/paul\/?articleid=3851>Debt, the Greatest Threat to Our National Security<\/a>,&#8221; by Rep. Ron Paul<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig2\/higgs012504.html>The Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think<\/a>&#8221; by Robert Higgs<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/antiwar.com\/paul\/?articleid=3059>Saving the World With Your Money<\/a>&#8221; by Rep. Ron Paul<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.fff.org\/comment\/com0309j.asp>Federal Spending Threatens Our Security<\/a>,&#8221; by Jacob Hornberger<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.fff.org\/freedom\/0690c.asp>The United States and the Roman Empire<\/a>,&#8221; by Lawrence W. Reed (from 1990 \u2013 when the national debt was <i>only<\/i> $3 trillion!)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s spotlight may be a first in Antiwar.com history. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Raising the Debt Limit: A Disgrace,&#8221; and it does not contain any of the following words: Iraq, Iran, Israel, neoconservative, Bush, empire \u2013 or even war. It doesn&#8217;t need to: it&#8217;s about the national debt, and anyone who reads this site regularly should grasp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-1482","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\/1482","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}