{"id":95,"date":"2003-08-30T00:50:24","date_gmt":"2003-08-30T07:50:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-08-30T00:50:24","modified_gmt":"2003-08-30T07:50:24","slug":"money-isnt-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/30\/money-isnt-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Money isn&#8217;t everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;turning-tables&#8221; &#8212; a blog written by a US soldier in Baghdad:<\/p>\n<ul>at the doors of the palace there are filipino guards in tan uniforms&#8230;i think they are part of a civilian security company&#8230;brought in by the u.s&#8230;.i recognize the uniforms&#8230;they had them in doha&#8230;but in kuwait they were americans&#8230;guarding all the gates to doha and arifjan\u2026I read yesterday that close to a third of the billion dollars a week that we are spending out here goes straight into contractors pockets\u2026I can believe it\u2026we\u2019ve got some civilian dudes out here who are doing my exact job as contractors\u2026they are each getting paid $120,000 a year\u2026they\u2019re both 26 years old\u2026the money is out there\u2026but money isn\u2019t everything\u2026<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;turning-tables&#8221; &#8212; a blog written by a US soldier in Baghdad: at the doors of the palace there are filipino guards in tan uniforms&#8230;i think they are part of a civilian security company&#8230;brought in by the u.s&#8230;.i recognize the uniforms&#8230;they had them in doha&#8230;but in kuwait they were americans&#8230;guarding all the gates to doha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-95","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\/95","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}