{"id":386,"date":"2003-04-02T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2003-04-02T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=386"},"modified":"2007-03-17T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T14:47:04","slug":"hero-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Hero Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patton famously remarked that the point isn&#8217;t to die for your country, it&#8217;s to make the other poor dumb bastards die for theirs. He might have added that the point isn&#8217;t to be captured by the enemy for your country either, it&#8217;s to capture the other poor dumb bastards. So could someone please explain how being captured in an ambush qualifies PFC Jessica Lynch as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/justin\/nat\/newsnat-3apr2003-30.htm\">a heroine<\/a>? Isn&#8217;t it more heroic <em>not<\/em> to be captured, or better still, to rescue someone who has? <\/p>\n<p>(<b>Update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/floyd.best.vwh.net\/weblog\/blogger.html\">Floyd McWilliams<\/a> points to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A14879-2003Apr2.html\">WaPo story<\/a> that shows I was rather unfair to PFC Lynch. It still isn&#8217;t clear how she was ambushed in the first place, but she certainly fought heroically after she was.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patton famously remarked that the point isn&#8217;t to die for your country, it&#8217;s to make the other poor dumb bastards die for theirs. He might have added that the point isn&#8217;t to be captured by the enemy for your country either, it&#8217;s to capture the other poor dumb bastards. So could someone please explain how <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=386' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-22-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}