{"id":84,"date":"2005-06-07T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T19:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2005-06-07T14:39:48","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T19:39:48","slug":"the-cost-of-the-war-on-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of the War on Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.org\">The American Spectator<\/a> yesterday and linked to one of Ben Stein&#8217;s articles.  He has an interesting perspective. Here is a excerpt from another one of his articles on the true cost of the war on terror, written after visiting children who have lost parents in the war .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I WISH I WERE ELOQUENT enough to tell you how brave these kids were and what a price they are paying. To lose a father while the rest of us complain about taxes and the stock market and the price of real estate. Quite a sight. Quite a concept.<\/p>\n<p>How can we possibly repay them? How conceivably?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.org\/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8261\">Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered The American Spectator yesterday and linked to one of Ben Stein&#8217;s articles. He has an interesting perspective. Here is a excerpt from another one of his articles on the true cost of the war on terror, written after visiting children who have lost parents in the war . &#8220;I WISH I WERE ELOQUENT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}