{"id":483,"date":"2007-08-14T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/three-marks-on-"},"modified":"2007-08-14T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:30:01","slug":"three-marks-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Three Marks on the Horizon &#8211; another article from Michael Yon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=400,height=267,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/08\/14\/michaelyon29.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/images\/2007\/08\/14\/michaelyon29.jpg\" title=\"Mistah! Mistah! Piktcha piktcha!\" alt=\"Michaelyon29\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/wp\/three-marks-on-the-horizon.htm\"><br \/>\nMichael Yon reports:<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our military has increasing moral authority in Iraq, but the same cannot be said for our government at home&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230;Some of our commanders could probably run for local offices in Iraq, and win. To say there has been no political progress in Iraq in 2007 is patently absurd, completely wrong and dangerously dismissive of the significant changes and improvements happening all across Iraq. Whether or not Americans are seeing it on the nightly news or reading it in their local papers, Iraqis are actively writing their children\u2019s history&#8230;.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/wp\/three-marks-on-the-horizon.htm\">Read it all.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Yon reports: &quot;Our military has increasing moral authority in Iraq, but the same cannot be said for our government at home&#8230;&quot; &quot;&#8230;Some of our commanders could probably run for local offices in Iraq, and win. To say there has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=483\">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":[1779],"tags":[1238,40],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-7N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}