{"id":320,"date":"2003-12-05T19:30:23","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-05T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2003-12-06T02:30:23","slug":"how-to-blog-like-the-big-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/05\/how-to-blog-like-the-big-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Blog Like the Big Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saddam&#8217;s former translator gives us another <a href=http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article.php3?table=old\u00a7ion=current&#038;issue=2003-12-06&#038;id=3811>justification for the war<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018He wrote in a hurry. It was as if he had all these ideas he just wanted to get out and his formal pronouncements weren\u2019t enough.\u2019 To express even the simplest ideas, Saddam used a convoluted style full of subclauses, superfluous adjectives and boring digressions. \u2018It was virtually impossible to translate into English because I had to chop up these endless sentences. Let\u2019s just say Saddam was no Naguib Mahfouz.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.instapundit.com>Indeed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saddam&#8217;s former translator gives us another justification for the war: \u2018He wrote in a hurry. It was as if he had all these ideas he just wanted to get out and his formal pronouncements weren\u2019t enough.\u2019 To express even the simplest ideas, Saddam used a convoluted style full of subclauses, superfluous adjectives and boring digressions. [&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-320","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\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}