{"id":19503,"date":"2010-06-21T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19503"},"modified":"2010-06-21T17:38:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T21:38:02","slug":"mike-yons-gears-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19503","title":{"rendered":"Mike Yon&#8217;s gears slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been staying on the periphery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2010\/06\/apologizing-to-yon.html\">the Michael Yon discussion<\/a>. I was uncomfortable with whole thing because Yon came through for us during the surge and I truly believed that all he needed was a break. To a lesser extent, I&#8217;ve fallen victim to coming up with new and different ways to increase blog traffic (and hopefully find some readers who would click the ads or kick a few bucks my way) and the resulting burn out &#8211; so I thought Yon just needed a rest. <\/p>\n<p>But today, Yon went on the G. Gordon Liddy show and just lost the remainder of respect I felt I owed him. Here&#8217;s a portion of the show;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NmxnHtCqxeM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NmxnHtCqxeM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object>   <\/p>\n<p>Yon just pushed me over to the milkook column. As recently as yesterday, I defended Yon in an email to our old friend <a href=\"http:\/\/ltnixonrants.blogspot.com\/\">Lt Nixon<\/a> (who has found some faulty reporting from Yon on the problems in Thailand). Yeah, I think I&#8217;m through hanging out my junk for crackpots to stomp on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been staying on the periphery of the Michael Yon discussion. I was uncomfortable with whole &hellip; <a title=\"Mike Yon&#8217;s gears slip\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19503\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mike Yon&#8217;s gears slip<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}