{"id":9581,"date":"2011-03-30T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2011-03-30T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:37:46","slug":"speech-fell-short-lacked-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/speech-fell-short-lacked-substance\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech &#8220;Fell Short, Lacked Substance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, this is not a judgment on Obama&#8217;s gas-bagging on Monday night. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, that is the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/30\/us-syria-usa-idUSTRE72T5MV20110330\"> <strong>State Department&#8217;s verdict <\/strong><\/a>on a speech today by Syria&#8217;s &#8220;President&#8221; Bashar al-Assad. <\/p>\n<p>After all the BS the Obama administration has shoveled, one would think that U.S. officials would be a bit circumspect before snipping about other leaders&#8217; tripe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this is not a judgment on Obama&#8217;s gas-bagging on Monday night. Instead, that is the State Department&#8217;s verdict on a speech today by Syria&#8217;s &#8220;President&#8221; Bashar al-Assad. After all the BS the Obama administration has shoveled, one would think that U.S. officials would be a bit circumspect before snipping about other leaders&#8217; tripe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/9581","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9583,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions\/9583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}