{"id":90,"date":"2005-08-28T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2005-08-28T21:08:13","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T13:08:13","slug":"im-glad-im-not-a-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not a soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northshire.com\/siteinfo\/coverimages\/0\/7\/6\/0-7679-0443-5.jpg\" alt=\"if i die in a combat zone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the book I&#8217;m reading at the moment, like most books written by soldiers, it does not glorify the war. Rather it offers a unique insight to the political and philosophical issues behind choosing to fight, as well as the usuall death and destruction.<br \/>\nIf I Die In A Combat Zone by Tim O&#8217;Brien is an easy to read account of one soldier&#8217;s war.<br \/>\nI wonder if writing a book is like writing a blog, in the fact that it gets a lot of a man&#8217;s chest. I wonder why we don&#8217;t see many other books about war in that case, one would imagine that there&#8217;d be a lot of weight on a lot of chests.<br \/>\nMakes me glad I&#8217;m not in a war, not faced with being drafted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the book I&#8217;m reading at the moment, like most books written by soldiers, it does not glorify the war. Rather it offers a unique insight to the political and philosophical issues behind choosing to fight, as well as the usuall death and destruction. If I Die In A Combat Zone by Tim O&#8217;Brien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}