{"id":7879,"date":"2013-11-13T20:17:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T10:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2013-11-13T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T10:17:25","slug":"war-is-a-racket-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7879","title":{"rendered":"War Is A Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original whistle blower, General Smedley Darlington Butler, who at one time was the most highly decorated marine in history, later in life became a major anti-war activist.<br \/>\nHis book &#8216;War Is A Racket&#8217;, which is only 15-30 minutes in length is an ABSOLUTE MUST READ and details the inner workings of the military industrial complex a century ago. As you will see, nothing has changed. War indeed, is a racket.<br \/>\nRead his book online for free here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratical.org\/ratville\/CAH\/warisaracket.html\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.ratical.org\/ratville\/CAH\/warisaracket.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original whistle blower, General Smedley Darlington Butler, who at one time was the most highly decorated marine in history, later in life became a major anti-war activist. His book &#8216;War Is A Racket&#8217;, which is only 15-30 minutes in length is an ABSOLUTE MUST READ and details the inner workings of the military industrial &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;War Is A Racket&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}