{"id":1390,"date":"2006-11-03T19:13:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2006-11-03T19:13:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:13:15","slug":"you_gotta_break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Break Some Eggs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Army general recently compared the escalating chaos in Iraq to the creation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/news_theswamp\/2006\/11\/the_art_of_war_.html#more\">great work of art<\/a>. Someone should ask the families of the 105 American servicemembers and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/middleeast\/articles\/2006\/11\/02\/iraqi_government_reports_big_jump_in_civilian_deaths\/\">1,289 Iraqis<\/a> who died in October how they feel about being a part of the world&#8217;s bloodiest art project. Bechtel must be a bunch of art-hating Philistines, seeing as how it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-bechtel3nov03,0,1869538.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">puling its contractors out of Iraq<\/a>. And Richard Perle, famed neoconservative and warmonger&#8211;er, I mean, artistic visionary? He&#8217;s apparently having some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2006\/12\/neocons200612\">artistic differences<\/a> with the Bush administration. <\/p>\n<p>Every time I think we&#8217;ve hit the bottom of this rabbit hole, the ground gives way and we fall even deeper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Army general recently compared the escalating chaos in Iraq to the creation of a great work of art. Someone should ask the families of the 105 American servicemembers and the 1,289 Iraqis who died in October how they feel about being a part of the world&#8217;s bloodiest art project. Bechtel must be a bunch <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1390' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}