{"id":991,"date":"2002-04-05T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-06T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=991"},"modified":"2002-04-05T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-06T00:34:00","slug":"a-bright-shining-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/04\/05\/20\/34\/a-bright-shining-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bright Shining Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite by accident I saw one of my all-time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679724141\/meehawl-20\">favourite war books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/argument.independent.co.uk\/regular_columnists\/fergal_keane\/story.jsp?story=277463\">namec<\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Afghan%20War\/This%20Afghan%20war%20is%20young%20-%20it%20may%20get%20a%20lot%20messier.html\">hecked<\/a>:<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/argument.independent.co.uk\/regular_columnists\/fergal_keane\/story.jsp?story=277463\">I plucked Neil Sheehan&#8217;s great book <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679724141\/meehawl-20\">A Bright Shining Lie<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/argument.independent.co.uk\/regular_columnists\/fergal_keane\/story.jsp?story=277463\"> off the shelf the other night, remembering how it described the beginning of the war in Vietnam. The first account of a major battle between the American-backed South Vietnamese <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Afghan%20War\/This%20Afghan%20war%20is%20young%20-%20it%20may%20get%20a%20lot%20messier.html\">regime and the Vietcong would make uncomfortable reading for General Tommy Franks &#8230; I&#8217;m not saying the battles of the last few weeks in Afghanistan are of precisely the same order; but only a fool would refuse to admit there are worrying similarities.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite by accident I saw one of my all-time favourite war books namechecked: I plucked Neil Sheehan&#8217;s great book A Bright Shining Lie off the shelf the other night, remembering how it described the&#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-991","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\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}