{"id":4670,"date":"2014-11-08T12:06:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2014-11-08T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T16:06:44","slug":"contra-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2014\/11\/08\/contra-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Contra Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4671\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/download.jpg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"237\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/download.jpg 237w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/download-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>Reading Bill Meara&#8217;s account of his experiences with the Central America wars of the 1980&#8217;s I came across a great line. \u00a0He says a &#8220;crusty old SF (Special Forces) sergeant told him they were players in a &#8220;Low Intensity, High Per Diem War.&#8221; \u00a0What a great phrase for the Central American wars, and, for that matter, for a number of other conflicts. \u00a0Unfortunately, more recent wars have tended to be high intensity, and high per diem has been afforded to only a select few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Bill Meara&#8217;s account of his experiences with the Central America wars of the 1980&#8217;s I came across a great line. \u00a0He says a &#8220;crusty old SF (Special Forces) sergeant told him they were players in a &#8220;Low Intensity, High Per Diem War.&#8221; \u00a0What a great phrase for the Central American wars, and, for that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,144,70,145],"tags":[193,204,205,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}