{"id":680,"date":"2008-08-27T05:20:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T11:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purplemass.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2008-08-28T05:23:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T11:23:04","slug":"media-blackout-the-armada-in-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Media Blackout: The Armada in the Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;\">The media have                covered such recent events as the Olympics, the selection of Joe                Biden as the Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party,                and what John McCain is going to do about the selection of the Vice                President of the Republican Party. Now the media will focus on the                national convention of the Democratic Party. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;\"> The most important                news for the month of August was the fact that President Bush has                quietly sent the largest armada into the Persian Gulf since the                Iraq war began in 2003, when there were six carrier groups. This                is a huge number of ships to be concentrated in one location in                peacetime.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/north\/north648.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story<\/a> &#8211; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\" target=\"_blank\">lewrockwell.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media have covered such recent events as the Olympics, the selection of Joe Biden as the Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, and what John McCain is going to do about the selection of the Vice President of the Republican Party. Now the media will focus on the national convention of the Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politiks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}