{"id":2702,"date":"2003-03-20T23:10:56","date_gmt":"2003-03-20T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/20\/day-1-of-10\/"},"modified":"2003-03-20T23:10:56","modified_gmt":"2003-03-20T17:40:56","slug":"day-1-of-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200303\/day-1-of-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 of 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As my loyal readers know, I have recklessly predicted that the war will get over in 10 days.  I thought that if my prediction goes awry, I can always take refuge in terminological inexactitude by shifting the start of the war as much later as possible. The US military has come to my rescue by calling today&#8217;s airstrikes &#8220;preparatory strikes&#8221;, whatever that means. That reminds me of the way management institutes have shortened the placement week to 2 days by introducing a Day 0 and a Day -1, etc. <\/p>\n<p>In any case,  I guess such games won&#8217;t be necessary. The invasion by the army <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/2869121.stm\">has started.<\/a><br \/>BBC is providing  a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/2866555.stm\">timeline<\/a> of the war&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my loyal readers know, I have recklessly predicted that the war will get over in 10 days. I thought that if my prediction goes awry, I can always take refuge in terminological inexactitude by shifting the start of the war as much later as possible. The US military has come to my rescue by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}