{"id":192,"date":"2005-11-20T20:54:55","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T20:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3500years.com\/zsallia\/?p=192"},"modified":"2005-11-20T20:54:55","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T20:54:55","slug":"lessons-apparently-not-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/2005\/11\/20\/lessons-apparently-not-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Apparently Not Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contrary to popular perception, it seems that history rarely repeats itself. Yet humans do repeat the same mistakes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I thought you Americans might have learned an important lesson from the aftermath of your shameless abandonment of the South Vietnamese people in the 1970&#8217;s.  From the looks of things in the media and in particular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qoae.net\/posts\/1132502355.shtml#4774\">this comment<\/a> I ran across while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qoae.net\/posts\/1132502355.shtml\">perusing<\/a> my regular reads, it appears that lesson did not take.<\/p>\n<p>Finish what you started, America, or 2000 dead will just be the down payment on the butcher&#8217;s bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to popular perception, it seems that history rarely repeats itself. Yet humans do repeat the same mistakes. I thought you Americans might have learned an important lesson from the aftermath of your shameless abandonment of the South Vietnamese people in the 1970&#8217;s. From the looks of things in the media and in particular this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-present"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}