{"id":2952,"date":"2007-07-05T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2007-07-05T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T08:34:08","slug":"july_4th_note_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2952","title":{"rendered":"July 4th Note to a  Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompeters.com\/entries.php?rss=1&#038;note=http:\/\/www.tompeters.com\/blogs\/main\/009827.php\">Tom Peters<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A friend is heading home on leave from Iraq today. I thought I&#8217;d write him a note\u2014then I decided to publish it here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear _____, I am at an uncharacteristic loss for words. Hence, I don&#8217;t know what to say other than &#8220;Thank you.&#8221; As we both know, the war is a contentious issue here in the Homeland. Many think we must indeed stay the course; at least as many think the war is a reckless, counterproductive disaster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Peters: A friend is heading home on leave from Iraq today. I thought I&#8217;d write him a note\u2014then I decided to publish it here: Dear _____, I am at an uncharacteristic loss for words. Hence, I don&#8217;t know what to say other than &#8220;Thank you.&#8221; As we both know, the war is a contentious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}