{"id":10496,"date":"2011-12-18T00:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T00:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/12\/18\/last-us-troops-wheels-up-in-ir\/"},"modified":"2011-12-18T00:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T00:11:01","slug":"last-us-troops-wheels-up-in-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/last-us-troops-wheels-up-in-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Last US Troops: Wheels Up in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is done.  The very last US Troops<sup>1<\/sup> left Iraq a few moments ago, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/12\/17\/9528197-last-us-soldiers-leave-iraq-ending-long-military-presence-there\">reports<\/a>.  And when I say &#8220;wheels up&#8221; I speak metaphorically, because I think they may have driven over into Kuwait.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Except the ones that I assume are still there somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is done. The very last US Troops1 left Iraq a few moments ago, according to reports. And when I say &#8220;wheels up&#8221; I speak metaphorically, because I think they may have driven over into Kuwait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Ji","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}