{"id":14517,"date":"2009-03-12T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T19:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=14517"},"modified":"2009-03-12T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T19:09:28","slug":"broder-chas-freeman-could-have-been-a-contender-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=14517","title":{"rendered":"Broder: Chas Freeman Could Have Been a Contender [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If he hadn&#8217;t been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/11\/AR2009031103213.html\">such a freaking douchebag<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Had the lobbyists not prevailed, Freeman would have assigned the intelligence analysts this week to figure out why the Chinese provoked a naval incident off their coast and what lessons we could draw from the mixed reactions of other nations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, the music of what doesn&#8217;t happen!<br \/>\n&#8220;Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter!&#8221;<br \/>\nTherefore op-ed columnist, pipe to me theories of no sense!<br \/>\nStill art thou employed, though thy fellows be<br \/>\nUntimely pitched from thine ivory tower&#8211;<br \/>\nSurrounded by moats and marbled minarets<br \/>\nBuilded to appease the now advancing power!<\/p>\n<p>But softly drops the memory of a cigarette,<br \/>\nSlowly smoked in this mine office of an olden hour:<br \/>\nFled is that savor: do I wake, or do I dream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he hadn&#8217;t been such a freaking douchebag: Had the lobbyists not prevailed, Freeman would have assigned the intelligence analysts this week to figure out why the Chinese provoked a naval incident off their coast and what lessons we could draw from the mixed reactions of other nations. Oh, the music of what doesn&#8217;t happen! &#8220;Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter!&#8221; Therefore op-ed columnist, pipe to me<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=14517\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}