{"id":1308,"date":"2005-04-26T07:57:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T07:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2005-04-26T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T07:57:44","slug":"hackworth_deser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Hackworth: Desert One, a Watershed Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sftt.us\/cgi-bin\/csNews\/csNews.cgi?database=Hacks%20Target%20Homepage.db&amp;command=viewone&amp;op=t&amp;id=115&amp;rnd=161.68770900074753\">David Hackworth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>April 24 and 25 marked the 25th anniversary of &ldquo;Operation Eagle Claw,&rdquo; Jimmy Carter&rsquo;s ill-fated attempt to salvage his presidency by rescuing 53 Americans held hostage in Tehran by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. It&rsquo;s also the date of one of the U.S. military&#8217;s worst self-inflicted public humiliations.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the joint mission was canceled, eight American warriors &#8211; five from the Air Force, three from the Marines &#8211; had been killed, and dozens were wounded.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Hackworth also discloses the apparent &#8220;real&#8221; reason the mission was aborted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Hackworth: April 24 and 25 marked the 25th anniversary of &ldquo;Operation Eagle Claw,&rdquo; Jimmy Carter&rsquo;s ill-fated attempt to salvage his presidency by rescuing 53 Americans held hostage in Tehran by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. It&rsquo;s also the date of one of the U.S. military&#8217;s worst self-inflicted public humiliations. By the time the joint mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}