{"id":2283,"date":"2015-07-16T16:52:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T23:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-mountain.com\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2015-07-16T16:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T23:53:55","slug":"been-gone-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Been gone a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where have I been?<\/p>\n<p>Out.<\/p>\n<p>What have I been doing?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I might have noted that Donald Trump is one scary sumbitch. Or who the hell is that woman running against McCain, and for heaven&#8217;s sake why. I did pause to wonder why we don&#8217;t settle for mutually assured destruction in the Middle East, specifically Iran. After all MAD worked well in the Cold War. Why not in the Middle East?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of war, does any politician in this country ever take note that come September We the People have been at war for 14 years? A google search on the question of how many Americans have died since 9\/11 came up with the number <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article24746680.html\">6,600<\/a>. Whoever is elected in November, 2016 will be our third war president and offer the prospect of another 8 years of war, death, destruction and drones.<\/p>\n<p>Where have I been?<\/p>\n<p>Hiding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where have I been? Out. What have I been doing? Nothing. Otherwise, I might have noted that Donald Trump is one scary sumbitch. Or who the hell is that woman running against McCain, and for heaven&#8217;s sake why. I did pause to wonder why we don&#8217;t settle for mutually assured destruction in the Middle East, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}