{"id":29350,"date":"2012-04-01T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T13:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29350"},"modified":"2012-04-01T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T13:52:44","slug":"nytimes-article-portends-end-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29350","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes article portend end times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PintoNag sends a tip to a New York Times article that actually praises the troops. The article by Rod Nordland is entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/01\/world\/asia\/american-who-gave-life-for-boy-is-heroic-contrast-to-afghan-news.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Good Deeds in Afghanistan Interrupt the Grim Narrative<\/a>&#8221; and mentions several instances in which the troops saves lives, instead of taking lives. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After months of what has seemed like a relentless series of episodes of soldiers behaving badly, from Koran burnings to massacres, the military was almost reluctant to trumpet its good deeds, not only in the Weichel case, but in another recent case where soldiers saved the life of a Taliban insurgent\u2019s son. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Matiullah Khan, a vegetable seller and Zaiullah\u2019s uncle, said, \u201cAs you know, all five fingers on one hand are not equal, and it\u2019s the same with American soldiers.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, were the Mayans right? Is the world coming to an end? When the New York Times thinks it&#8217;s important to report the good deeds the majority of our soldiers have done instead of focusing on the few who aren&#8217;t so good, what else can this mean?<\/p>\n<p>As Hondo said in a previous discussion, I&#8217;m heading to the Pyrenees. Just in case. <\/p>\n<p>Or maybe this is the NYT&#8217;s idea of an April Fools Day joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PintoNag sends a tip to a New York Times article that actually praises the troops. The &hellip; <a title=\"NYTimes article portend end times\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29350\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NYTimes article portend end times<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29350","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=29350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}