{"id":113686,"date":"2018-07-02T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=113686"},"modified":"2018-06-29T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T10:33:49","slug":"confessions-of-an-ex-drone-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/07\/confessions-of-an-ex-drone-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of an Ex-Drone Operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rt-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rt-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a>The US military is relying more and more on drone warfare but could this modern weapon do more harm than good? Brandon Bryant, former drone operator in America&#8217;s armed forces, shares his experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI was praised for saving imaginary lives, but 13 people I killed were real.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CJ9s9mrUWvc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military is relying more and more on drone warfare but could this modern weapon do more harm than good? Brandon Bryant, former drone operator in America&#8217;s armed forces, shares his experience. &#8211;\u201cI was praised for saving imaginary lives, but 13 people I killed were real.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113686","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=113686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}