{"id":22121,"date":"2013-09-05T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22121"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:58:01","slug":"short-takes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22121","title":{"rendered":"Short Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Harvest) Moon<\/p>\n<p>Short takes:<\/p>\n<p>Syria: \u00a0Stop the chemical weapons wielding tyrant by helping the increasingly Al-Qaeda led rebels? \u00a0Seems no would work. \u00a0But learning to say no is so hard.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Rodman: \u00a0Makes me wonder if Kim (his buddy, Kim) has any tats. \u00a0What would they be? \u00a0Firing squads? \u00a0Underfed peasants? \u00a0Ballistic missiles? \u00a0Rodman wants to set up a basketball league in North Korea. \u00a0Gosh.<\/p>\n<p>(US Ambassador to North Korea)<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Weiner for Mayor: \u00a0&#8220;Gosh. \u00a0Learning to say no is hard.&#8221; Carlos Danger<\/p>\n<p>Obama and Putin: \u00a0Maybe we should have Rodman to go to Moscow. \u00a0Kim could go along. \u00a0Rebound diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Areil Castro suicide: \u00a0As the Onion said, &#8220;Ariel Castro failed by system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Harvest) Moon Short takes: Syria: \u00a0Stop the chemical weapons wielding tyrant by helping the increasingly Al-Qaeda led rebels? \u00a0Seems no would work. \u00a0But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short Takes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1980],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-on-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35630,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121\/revisions\/35630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}