{"id":1137,"date":"2004-09-23T00:29:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T00:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joi.betra.is\/?p=1137"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Pre-emptive strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Eight hundred years your people have been fighting wars, and every single one of &#8217;em started because the Romans were afraid of somebody, some bunch of woolly-backed savages who were bound to come raping and pillaging throughout the empire unless they were smacked down first. Eight centuries of pre-emptive strikes, millions of people dead and mutilated, because you Romans reckon peace is a good idea<\/p>\n<div align=right>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomholt.com\/\">Thomas Holt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0349116148\/worldfootballf04\">A song for Nero<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight hundred years your people have been fighting wars, and every single one of &#8217;em started because the Romans were afraid of somebody, some bunch of woolly-backed savages who were bound to come raping and pillaging throughout the empire unless they were smacked down first. Eight centuries of pre-emptive strikes, millions of people dead and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","author-joi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joi.betra.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}