{"id":2672,"date":"2006-12-31T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2006-12-31T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T15:40:00","slug":"saddam-on-finding-a-good-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/12\/31\/11\/40\/saddam-on-finding-a-good-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam On Finding A Good Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/30\/world\/middleeast\/30saddam.html?ex=1325134800&#038;en=137f4251e3d0b2fe&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">[Saddam] was particularly phobic about germs. Even top generals summoned to meet him were often ordered to strip to their underwear and their clothes were then washed, ironed and X-rayed before they could get dressed to see him &#8230; [he] ordered mosques constructed around Baghdad on a scale not seen since it was the medieval capital of the Muslim caliphate [one] mosque held a Koran written with 28 gradually donated liters of Mr. Hussein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blood &#8230; Some of his former American guards &#8230; said he acted in a fatherly way, offering advice on finding a good wife \u00e2\u20ac\u201d &#8220;neither too smart nor too dumb, not too old nor too young&#8221;.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Saddam] was particularly phobic about germs. Even top generals summoned to meet him were often ordered to strip to their underwear and their clothes were then washed, ironed and X-rayed before they could get&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}