{"id":23860,"date":"2011-06-13T06:27:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T10:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23860"},"modified":"2011-06-13T06:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T10:32:43","slug":"for-rent-a-palace-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23860","title":{"rendered":"For Rent: A Palace or Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2011\/06\/ap-troops-leaving-saddam-palaces-in-iraq-061211\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. troops leaving Saddam\u2019s palaces in Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Available soon: nine palaces in lakeside complex frequented by  visiting kings and dictators, beautiful molded ceilings and light  fixtures, many bidets, Saddam Hussein mural and former prison cell. As  is, with Tomahawk missile damage. Contact: U.S. Army.<\/p>\n<p>Thus might  read a real estate ad for the Victory Base Complex, one of the many  properties the U.S. military is vacating as the Dec. 31 deadline for its  withdrawal from Iraq approaches. It will leave behind probably some of  the most elaborate, some would say tacky, office spaces ever used by  American soldiers, sailors or Marines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not much to add from this seat. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever been in a palace myself.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may feel a bit of nostalgia though?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. troops leaving Saddam\u2019s palaces in Iraq Available soon: nine palaces in lakeside complex frequented by &hellip; <a title=\"For Rent: A Palace or Two\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23860\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Rent: A Palace or Two<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23860","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}