{"id":1900,"date":"2008-01-04T05:59:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2008-01-04T05:59:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T10:59:42","slug":"lest-you-didnt-see-it-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"Lest You Didn&#8217;t See It In The News&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8230;because it went utterly unreported), <a href=\"http:\/\/fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/iraq-casualty-numbers.html\">Wretchard at The Belmont Club notes<\/a>\u00a0that our troops in Iraq just sustained the <em>lowest <\/em>rolling three-month death toll <em>of the entire war <\/em>in October through December:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US deaths in Iraq are at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/ops\/iraq_casualties.htm\"><font color=\"#3366aa\">lowest 3 month total ever<\/font><\/a>&#8230;The three month total for October, November and December 2007 is 93. It&#8217;s also the first time a 3 month total has dropped below 3 digits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A commenter notes that the combat death toll is even lower; seven of the 21 December deaths were non-combat related.\u00a0 Not to trivialize them, but to note that combat casualties are even lower than the numbers would show on the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8230;because it went utterly unreported), Wretchard at The Belmont Club notes\u00a0that our troops in Iraq just sustained the lowest rolling three-month death toll of the entire war in October through December: US deaths in Iraq are at the lowest 3 month total ever&#8230;The three month total for October, November and December 2007 is 93. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}