{"id":1329,"date":"2004-03-18T00:41:47","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T05:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/bob_zangas_a_ma"},"modified":"2004-03-18T00:41:47","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T05:41:47","slug":"bob_zangas_a_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Bob Zangas &#8211; a man to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/militarypages.com\/cfiles\/siteone.asp?p=38&#038;id=23\">Bob Zangas&#8217; weblog<\/a> and marveled at his capacity to enjoy life. <\/p>\n<p>Bob Zangas explained how he came to be back in Iraq as &#8220;Bob&#8221;, a civilian, and not as Lt. Colonel Zangas. He was working in a civilian capacity for the Coalition Provisional Authority. His friendly assessment of the people he met and his photographs gave me the feeling of being there on the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Bob had a realistic view of the problems faced in helping Iraq, but he remained optimistic about the future. His weblog conveyed the impression of a good and dedicated man who represented the best of what America has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>I was saddened to find out recently that he had been killed in an ambush south of Baghdad. I revisited his weblog and paid my respects along with the many that have been posted there.<\/p>\n<p>Go read all of the posts in his weblog. They will give you a view of Iraq you have not seen before. When you are done, you might feel like I did and want to pay your <a href=\"http:\/\/militarypages.com\/cfiles\/siteone.asp?p=mboard&#038;action=message&#038;id=23&#038;catid=10&#038;category=Condolences\">respects<\/a> to a young man who was willing to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/lt-smash.us\/\">Citizen Smash<\/a> for the lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I discovered Bob Zangas&#8217; weblog and marveled at his capacity to enjoy life. Bob Zangas explained how he came to be back in Iraq as &#8220;Bob&#8221;, a civilian, and not as Lt. Colonel Zangas. He was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1329\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1826],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-lr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}