{"id":147,"date":"2021-08-15T20:16:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/?p=147"},"modified":"2021-08-15T20:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:16:01","slug":"what-a-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/2021\/08\/15\/what-a-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over 6,000 American lives, hundreds of thousands of Afghani lives, and trillions of dollars wasted on &#8220;nation building&#8221; that was doomed from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"648\" data-attachment-id=\"148\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/2021\/08\/15\/what-a-waste\/libertarianct_2021-aug-15\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LibertarianCT_2021-Aug-15.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"699,648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LibertarianCT_2021-Aug-15\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LibertarianCT_2021-Aug-15-300x278.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LibertarianCT_2021-Aug-15.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LibertarianCT_2021-Aug-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LibertarianCT_2021-Aug-15.jpg 699w, http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LibertarianCT_2021-Aug-15-300x278.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LibertarianCT_2021-Aug-15-324x300.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My heart goes out especially to the women who will now be subjected to the barbarity of the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 6,000 American lives, hundreds of thousands of Afghani lives, and trillions of dollars wasted on &#8220;nation building&#8221; that was doomed from the start. My heart goes out especially to the women who will now be subjected to the barbarity of the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Madi-2n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}