{"id":441,"date":"2003-12-10T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T01:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=441"},"modified":"2003-12-10T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T01:13:15","slug":"baghdad-blowout-bonanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad Blowout Bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>C<\/span>BC had a funny skit about today&#8217;s hot topics: the (lucrative) contracts for companies (sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/url?ntc=0M0A0&#038;q=http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi%3Ff%3D\/news\/archive\/2003\/12\/10\/national1843EST0797.DTL\">Coalition partners only<\/a>) rebuilding Iraq and the sellout of Iraq companies (privatization).  Appropriately called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/thecurrent\/2003\/200312\/20031210.html\">&#8216;Baghdad Blowout Bonanza&#8217;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The RealAudio file is <a href=\"http:\/\/media.cbc.ca:8080\/ramgen\/cbc.ca\/thecurrent\/media\/200312\/20031210thecurrent_sec3.rm\">here<\/a>, but you have to go fast forward to 6:26 minutes to hear the actual skit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC had a funny skit about today&#8217;s hot topics: the (lucrative) contracts for companies (sorry, Coalition partners only) rebuilding Iraq and the sellout of Iraq companies (privatization). Appropriately called &#8216;Baghdad Blowout Bonanza&#8217;. The RealAudio file is here, but you have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=441\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}