{"id":109264,"date":"2018-04-16T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=109264"},"modified":"2018-04-14T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T18:33:00","slug":"if-were-on-the-brink-of-war-the-fault-is-ours-not-trumps-or-boltons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/if-were-on-the-brink-of-war-the-fault-is-ours-not-trumps-or-boltons\/","title":{"rendered":"If We&#8217;re on the Brink of War, the Fault Is Ours, Not Trump&#8217;s or Bolton&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>They have an excuse \u2013 they\u2019re stupid and crazy. What\u2019s ours? <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_109265\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-syria-bolton-usa-military-pentagon.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109265\" class=\"wp-image-109265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-syria-bolton-usa-military-pentagon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-syria-bolton-usa-military-pentagon.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-syria-bolton-usa-military-pentagon-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-syria-bolton-usa-military-pentagon-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump has threatened military action against Syria, leaving the world on edge. Xinhua News Agency\/eyevine\/Redux<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>12 Apr 2018 &#8211; <\/em>So here we are, on the brink. Here\u2019s Donald Trump\u2019s tough-ass <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/984022625440747520\" >tweet<\/a> about how he\u2019s about to mix it up with both Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad <em>and<\/em> Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia,  because they will be coming, nice and new and \u201csmart!\u201d You shouldn\u2019t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/984022625440747520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >April 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fate of humanity now rests in the hands of this Twitter-obsessed dingbat executive and his new national security adviser, John Bolton \u2013 one of the most deranged people to have ever served in the United States government, a man who makes Jeane Kirkpatrick look like Florence Nightingale.<\/p>\n<p>With these two at the helm, we are now facing the imminent possibility of direct military conflict with a nuclear enemy. No one in the popular press is saying it, but there could easily be Russian casualties in Trump\u2019s inevitable bombing campaign. Which will then put the onus on a third lunatic, Vladimir Putin, to respond with appropriate restraint.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, pretty much the only places where you will read today about the frightening possibility of Russian casualties are in military journals, in the nervous musings of Pentagon officials. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/airstrikes-russian-troops-syria-response\/\" >Here<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/punchng.com\/we-wont-disclose-when-well-strike-trump-warns-syria\/\" >there<\/a> you will see reports of concern about what might happen if we kill the wrong Russians, or the wrong <em>quantity<\/em> of Russians. One outlet calmly suggested the Russians might step up &#8220;harassment&#8221; of U.S. warplanes and outposts if we kill too many of theirs, as if this would not cause the whole world to soil itself in terror.<\/p>\n<p>So to recap: the most terminally insecure president ever sits in the White House, advised by one of the most war-crazy hacks in the history of federal service, at the outset of a fully avoidable proxy war with an enemy that possesses thousands of lethal thermonuclear warheads aimed directly at us.<\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind that virtually any exchange of nuclear missiles between these two countries would mean the absolute <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-12-nuclear-war-civilization-famine.html\" >end of civilization<\/a>. We could all, right now, be minutes away from the end of everything, especially given who holds the respective buttons.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the Trump presidency the sole goal of all thinking people ought to have been: <em>survive<\/em>. Bad as the possibilities of a Trump presidency were, we could live through almost all of them, except one<em>: <\/em>Trump trying to conduct a war with a nuclear adversary.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first president we\u2019ve ever had who combines the two deadly qualities of a) being stupid enough to think nuclear war is survivable and b) lacking the counsel of sensible persons to steer him away from impulsive, civilization-imperiling moves. JFK, desperate for career-defining war <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/11\/strange-saga-of-jfk-and-dr-feelgood.html\" >and perpetually cranked on his morning Dr. Feelgood injections<\/a>, was the last executive who came close to being this scary \u2013 and he wasn\u2019t remotely as bad.<\/p>\n<p>But we had a head start in dodging the bullet with Trump, as one of the few not-terrifying qualities he demonstrated as a candidate was his seeming reluctance to get into unnecessary wars. Trump was specifically on record as wanting to &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2017\/8\/25\/16185936\/trump-america-first-afghanistan-war-troops-iraq-generals\" >stay out of Syria<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s isolationism was of course at least partly insincere, as the Orange One has stepped up drone attacks, and both he and his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/quizzes.clickhole.com\/which-one-of-my-garbage-sons-are-you-1825124556\" >Large Adult Son<\/a> have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donaldjtrumpjr\/status\/852945583945986049?lang=en\" >gushed<\/a> over events like the dropping of the cretinous MOAB weapon in Afghanistan. (&#8220;Another promise kept #moab #maga,&#8221; moron-tweeted Don, Jr.) Trump even reportedly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DannyZuker\/status\/852576211490414592?ref_src=twsrc%255Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%253A%252F%252Fperezhilton.com%252F2017-04-13-donald-trump-moab-bomb-afghanistan-twitter-reactions&amp;tfw_site=PerezHilton\" >bragged<\/a> that he dropped the &#8220;Mother Of All Bombs&#8221; after eating a &#8220;terrific, moist lemon bundt cake.&#8221; (He later bragged he was eating a &#8220;beautiful piece of chocolate cake&#8221; when he bombed Syria.)<\/p>\n<p>But, unlike his racism and xenophobia and lack of sympathy for the poor \u2013 issues where there are obvious currents visible in what passes for his mind \u2013 Trump is highly suggestible in matters military.<\/p>\n<p>He played isolationist as a candidate because he sensed that was what his voters wanted (and he was right about this, as studies <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/new-study-communities-most-affected-by-war-turned-to-trump-in-2016\/\" >later showed<\/a> that communities hit hardest by our Middle Eastern wars responded to Trump\u2019s isolationist message).<\/p>\n<p>As president, however, the one time he received praise from the Washington consensus was when he bombed Assad last year. You might remember that as the time when Fareed Zakaria <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/327779-cnn-host-donald-trump-became-president-last-night\" >gushed<\/a> on CNN, &#8220;Donald Trump became president tonight,&#8221; and a tumescent Brian Williams <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/brian-williams-msnbc\" >countered<\/a> by calling the bombs &#8220;beautiful&#8221; 8 times in 30 seconds, quoting Leonard Cohen as he said, &#8220;I am guided by the beauty of our weapons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109266\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-bolton.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109266\" class=\"wp-image-109266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-bolton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-bolton.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-bolton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump and his new National Security Adviser, John Bolton. Evan Vucci\/AP\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That remains the best night of press Donald Trump has ever gotten on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>That was last year. This year, it\u2019s worse. Virtually the entire intellectual consensus within Washington \u2013 with a few exceptions among progressives and Republican outcasts like\u00a0like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/984066721228165120?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Etweet\" >Rand Paul<\/a> \u2013 has been pushing the president in the direction of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, the instant Trump actually began to threaten military action against Assad and Putin, the pundit-o-sphere began to embrace a new line: They had been against military action all along!<\/p>\n<p>Why, some <em>Media Matters<\/em> types, academics like UMass professor Paul Musgrave, and think-tankers like Brookings Institution fellow Tom Wright even began suggesting that it had not been they themselves, but evil foreigners, in conjunction with Fox News, who drove Trump to his &#8220;reckless&#8221; behavior.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the president\u2019s reckless Russia tweets were driven by Fox and Friends segments today, as [Media Matters analyst] @MattGertz suggests,&#8221; wrote Musgrave, &#8220;perhaps we should make the show\u2019s producer a Senate-confirmable post.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a real question as to whether foreign intelligence agencies have tried to penetrate Fox News, especially Fox and Friends,&#8221; added Wright.<\/p>\n<p>The unbelievable hypocrisy of all of this is belied by the actions of, well, just about all of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>It started two weeks ago, when Trump <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/29\/politics\/trump-withdraw-syria-pentagon\/index.html\" >announced<\/a> he was pulling out of Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re knocking the hell out of ISIS. We&#8217;ll be coming out of Syria like very soon. Let the other people take care of it now,&#8221; he said, reverting to his campaign persona in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The D.C. intelligentsia wasted no time in hammering this decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump\u2019s Syria Policy Isn\u2019t Retrenchement, It\u2019s Pandering,&#8221;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2018\/04\/09\/trumps-syria-policy-isnt-retrenchment-its-pandering\/\" >sneered<\/a> <em>Foreign Policy.<\/p>\n<p><\/em>&#8220;Chaos reigns with his president,&#8221; said Hawaii Democrat Mazie Hirono, calling the withdrawal plan &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2018\/04\/03\/dem_sen_mazie_hirono_trump_syria_policy_is_incoherent_i_have_a_lot_of_questions.html\" >incoherent<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Howard Dean, a man I once voted for because he <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/03\/29\/us\/nation-war-presidential-candidate-antiwar-stance-buoys-howard-dean-iowa.html\" >at least tepidly opposed<\/a> a pointless Middle Eastern war, decided to use this occasion to taunt Trump in schoolyard fashion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why are you such a wimp for Assad and Putin?&#8221; Dean <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovHowardDean\/status\/982980947158159360\" >tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, news emerged of a chemical gas attack on citizens in a town near Damascus. The Assad regime was blamed, but denied responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s smart set instantly concluded (despite some at least faintly legitimate concern about the intelligence linking Assad to the attack) that Trump not only could not leave Syria, but also had to retaliate militarily.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, some insisted, the gas attack was actually Trump\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109267\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gbu-43b-moab-usa-military-pentagon.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109267\" class=\"wp-image-109267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gbu-43b-moab-usa-military-pentagon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gbu-43b-moab-usa-military-pentagon.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gbu-43b-moab-usa-military-pentagon-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated photo of a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast weapon, the MOAB, colloquially known as the &#8220;mother of all bombs.&#8221; AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\" >@POTUS<\/a>&#8216;s pledge to withdraw from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash\" >#Syria<\/a> has only emboldened Assad,&#8221;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJohnMcCain\/status\/983065571825680384?ref_src=twsrc%255Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%253A%252F%252Finsider.foxnews.com%252F2018%252F04%252F09%252Fjohn-mccain-bashar-assad-emboldened-trumps-talk-withdrawing-us-troops-syria&amp;tfw_creator=foxnewsinsider&amp;tfw_site=foxnewsinsider\" >tweeted<\/a> John McCain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly there needs to be a response. It needs to be an international response,&#8221;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJohnMcCain\/status\/983065571825680384?ref_src=twsrc%255Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%253A%252F%252Finsider.foxnews.com%252F2018%252F04%252F09%252Fjohn-mccain-bashar-assad-emboldened-trumps-talk-withdrawing-us-troops-syria&amp;tfw_creator=foxnewsinsider&amp;tfw_site=foxnewsinsider\" >said<\/a> Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, underscoring the bipartisan agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would destroy Assad\u2019s Air Force,&#8221; said Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some kind of military response ought to be considered,&#8221;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/04\/09\/600777575\/sen-blumenthal-on-syria-chemical-attack-zuckerbergs-testimony\" >said<\/a> Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. &#8220;It has to be robust and unmistakable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The notion that Trump needed to do more than lob a few wimpy little missiles was a popular theme.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, there was a caveat to &#8220;bomb immediately&#8221; \u2013 Trump should do it, but only after asking for congressional support, which he would of course get.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Kaine <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/04\/10\/601268138\/democratic-sen-tim-kaine-discusses-possible-military-action-against-syria\" >said<\/a>, &#8220;I think there&#8217;s a good argument to be made that there should be a military tough response,&#8221; then said Trump should ask congress first, then said he would vote yes if asked.<\/p>\n<p>In Britain, a nation whose foreign policy moves have become unpleasantly intertwined with our own in a way eerily reminiscent of the Iraq war era, Theresa May <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/11\/politics\/trump-missiles-tweet\/index.html\" >said<\/a> the use of chemical weapons &#8220;cannot go unchallenged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the press, this is what the <em>New York Times <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/editorial-roundup-excerpts-from-recent-editorials\/2018\/04\/11\/c526e504-3db7-11e8-955b-7d2e19b79966_story.html?utm_term=.2fd6b79c9079\" >had to say<\/a> in its house editorial (emphasis mine): &#8220;Tough talk without a coherent strategy <strong>or<\/strong> <strong>follow-through<\/strong> is dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Morning&#8221; Joe Scarborough offered this armchair-tough <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeNBC\/status\/982988377271230464\" >tweet<\/a>, aping the McCain take: &#8220;Trump announced plans this week to surrender Syria to Putin, Assad, ISIS and Iran. Putin\u2019s puppet responded to Trump\u2019s weakness with war crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109268\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/putin.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109268\" class=\"wp-image-109268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/putin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/putin.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/putin-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be ideologically aligned with Syria&#8217;s Bashar al-Assad. Sergey Mihailicenko\/Anadolu Agency\/Getty<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Among think-tankers, Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute penned the non-sensational editorial, &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/its-time-to-assassinate-assad\/\" >It\u2019s time to assassinate Assad<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chemical Attack in Syria Demands Stiff Response from U.S., Allies,&#8221;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/middle-east\/commentary\/chemical-attack-syria-demands-stiff-response-us-allies\" >wrote<\/a> Luke Coffey of the Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>So pols, press, and talking heads were virtually all been in agreement. Attack!<\/p>\n<p>One could maybe understand this attitude from millennials, who weren\u2019t raised amid <em>The Day After <\/em>or &#8220;99 Luftballoons&#8221;<em>\u00a0<\/em>or &#8220;1999&#8221;<em>\u00a0<\/em>or <em>Failsafe <\/em>or <em>Dr. Strangelove <\/em>even, and have never experienced even fake angst about growing up under the specter of nuclear war. But all the preceding generations should know better. We all grew up aware it could all be over in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably the most serious showdown between nuclear powers since the Cuban missile crisis, or at the very least, the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight 007 in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>The oft-derided Doomsday Clock, kept by the Union of Atomic Scientists, describes us as closer to nuclear war than at any time <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/sites\/default\/files\/1953%2520Clock%2520Statement%25201.pdf\" >since 1953<\/a>, when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union tested thermonuclear weapons for the first time. &#8220;The continued existence of urban, technological civilization will soon hang in a precarious balance,&#8221; the Scientists predicted then.<\/p>\n<p>They were right. It\u2019s no mystery that most of the permanent jobholder types who occupy Washington have since shown they will reflexively endorse pretty much any military action in any situation. There\u2019s never been any real institutional pull toward peace and sanity in our politics, just the occasional quixotic straggler.<\/p>\n<p>But in the pre-Trump years, this Beltway reflex mostly supported a predictable \u2013 if bloodthirsty \u2013 form of global interventionism. It was never so suicidal, never so maniacal. Whether Trump has brought out the worst in us, or we\u2019ve just lost our minds, we\u2019ve become a danger to the world and to ourselves, holding John Bolton to our heads as a suicide weapon.<\/p>\n<p>That Trump might forget the awesome danger of nuclear war is a given. The man is a fool. But what\u2019s our excuse?<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/matt-taibbi-e1511009078146.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/matt-taibbi-e1511009078146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><em>Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for <\/em><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><em>. He\u2019s the author of five books and a winner of the National Magazine Award for commentary. Please direct all media requests to <a href=\"mailto:taibbi%20media%20at%20yahoo%20dot%20com\">taibbimedia@yahoo.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/features\/trump-syria-war-w519034\" >Go to Original \u2013 rollingstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have an excuse \u2013 they\u2019re stupid and crazy. What\u2019s ours? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}