{"id":1932,"date":"2008-01-09T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2008-01-09T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T10:38:09","slug":"aluminum-ships-and-iron-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1932","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum Ships and Iron Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian speedboats <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20080108\/D8U1UNM80.html\">Mthreaten US Navy ships in the Gulf<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Video and audio recordings clearly show Iranian boats confronting U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf, and a voice speaking in heavily-accented English can be heard threatening that the American vessels were going to explode, military officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which President Bush denounced Tuesday as a &#8220;provocative act,&#8221; was videotaped by a crew member on the bridge of the destroyer USS Hopper, one of the three ships that faced down five Iranian boats in a flare-up early Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In related news, Moveon.org, Harry Reid and Nanci Pelosi declared the naval war in the Gulf &#8220;unwinnable&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian speedboats Mthreaten US Navy ships in the Gulf: Video and audio recordings clearly show Iranian boats confronting U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf, and a voice speaking in heavily-accented English can be heard threatening that the American vessels were going to explode, military officials said Tuesday. The incident, which President Bush denounced Tuesday [&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-1932","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\/1932","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=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}