{"id":53,"date":"2005-12-23T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T18:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2005-12-23T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T18:49:58","slug":"just-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Just like us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad, Iraq.  &#8220;Demonstrations broke out across the country Friday to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters called rigged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Iraq is getting just like the US.  In 2000 the Democrats claimed our election was rigged and illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine this happening 3 years ago in Iraq.  There would be even more dead bodies in the mass graves.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t perfect but democracy beats all the other forms of government.  At least people don&#8217;t die for their political beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad, Iraq. &#8220;Demonstrations broke out across the country Friday to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters called rigged.&#8221; It looks like Iraq is getting just like the US. In 2000 the Democrats claimed our election was rigged and illegal. Imagine this happening 3 years ago in Iraq. There would be even more dead bodies in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}