{"id":4935,"date":"2019-09-05T08:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T08:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2019-09-05T08:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T08:05:40","slug":"war-isnt-about-being-fair-as-patton-said-no-bastard-ever-won-a-war-by-dying-for-his-country-he-won-it-by-making-some-other-poor-dumb-bastard-die-for-his-country-hitting-the-target-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=4935","title":{"rendered":"War isn&#8217;t about being &#8220;fair&#8221;. As Patton said, &#8220;No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country.&#8221; &#8220;Hitting the target from further than they can detect you is the name of the game.&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/zzUkFYxA0c https:\/\/t.co\/GuSAk2e45J"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">War isn&#39;t about being &quot;fair&quot;. As Patton said, &quot;No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hitting the target from further than they can detect you is the name of the game.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zzUkFYxA0c\">https:\/\/t.co\/zzUkFYxA0c<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GuSAk2e45J\">pic.twitter.com\/GuSAk2e45J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1169521050641731584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>September 05, 2019 at 04:02AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War isn&#39;t about being &quot;fair&quot;. As Patton said, &quot;No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country.&quot; &quot;Hitting the target from further than they can detect you is the name of the game.&quot; https:\/\/t.co\/zzUkFYxA0c pic.twitter.com\/GuSAk2e45J &mdash; Warren Myers ?? &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=4935\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War isn&#8217;t about being &#8220;fair&#8221;. As Patton said, &#8220;No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country.&#8221; &#8220;Hitting the target from further than they can detect you is the name of the game.&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/zzUkFYxA0c https:\/\/t.co\/GuSAk2e45J<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4936,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}