{"id":63782,"date":"2017-07-14T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63782"},"modified":"2017-07-12T10:57:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T15:57:51","slug":"trolling-level-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63782","title":{"rendered":"Trolling Level:  PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-islamic-state-of-iraq-levant-isis-leader-dead-sohr-says\/\">are reports<\/a> that ISIS&#8217;s putative caliph, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, is pining for the fjords.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is treating the reports as unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not stopping Mattis&#8217;s Pentagon from talking some grim, pointed smack with the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A spokesman for the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition told CBS News in an emailed statement that, &#8220;we cannot confirm this report, but hope it is true. We strongly advise ISIS to implement a strong line of succession, it will be needed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are reports that ISIS&#8217;s putative caliph, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, is pining for the fjords. The Pentagon is treating the reports as unconfirmed. But that&#8217;s not stopping Mattis&#8217;s Pentagon from talking some grim, pointed smack with the story: A spokesman for the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition told CBS News in an emailed statement that, &#8220;we cannot [&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-63782","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\/63782","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=63782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63783,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63782\/revisions\/63783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}