{"id":5942,"date":"2008-11-19T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/announcing-the-afghan-moon-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T09:29:00","slug":"announcing-the-afghan-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/announcing-the-afghan-moon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Afghan Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just won in Iraq.  We will win in Afghanistan, and Americans should know that.  I am an American working in Afghanistan, and my intent with this blog is to explain why we will win, and why we are winning now, despite setbacks.<br \/>It is about to get very cold here in Afghanistan, but the sun has not disappeared.  Next summer will be hot.  Remember that when the media finally move off of the election, and resume their drumbeat of &#8220;Grim Milestones&#8221; about the Afghanistan front in this global war.  We will win despite setbacks, just as surely as the summer will come despite the approach of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading.  Welcome to the Afghan Moon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5942\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5942\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just won in Iraq. We will win in Afghanistan, and Americans should know that. I am an American working in Afghanistan, and my intent with this blog is to explain why we will win, and why we are winning now, despite setbacks.<br \/>It is about to get very cold here in Afghanistan, but the sun has not disappeared. Next summer will be hot. Remember that when the media finally move off of the election, and resume their drumbeat of &#8220;Grim Milestones&#8221; about the Afghanistan front in this global war. We will win despite setbacks, just as surely as the summer will come despite the approach of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading. Welcome to the Afghan Moon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5942\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i ... <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/announcing-the-afghan-moon-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-5942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mainfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}