{"id":1009,"date":"2011-05-02T09:10:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2011-05-02T09:10:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:10:24","slug":"the-morning-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I have the same shirt on I had that day. It&#8217;s a nice shirt. Durable. Also has the logo in the old font, which I like better. Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The funniest thing ever would be if Seth Meyers opened Weekend Update with a graphic of Bin Laden and said &#8220;Well don&#8217;t I feel like a jackass now.&#8221; and waited for the 3-minute crowd pop to die down. Come on, it&#8217;s NYC. You had to know they would go batshit. DC too. Hell, I wish I could have been there.<\/p>\n<p>My big hope out of all this is that maybe it&#8217;s going to be an end to the September 12 mentality. No more pants-shitting terror, no more blind panic, but a calm, reasoned evaluation of the threat and the response. Terrorists are not Magneto, they are not vampires or zombies, and they can be handled in a rational manner by government and public alike. I have to say that the most gratifying thing about this operation was that it was a long play with the CIA and military working hand-in-glove, something that hasn&#8217;t happened before &#8211; and instead of rushing in on the eve of the elections in November to score points, they took their time and waited until they could do it right.<\/p>\n<p><i>That<\/i> is how you get to say Mission Accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>As I said on EDSBS last night, this isn&#8217;t the championship, this is just one win in a long and grueling season. But it&#8217;s a big win, and we&#8217;re going to take a day to smoke and lift a glass to absent friends. We can get back to grinding tomorrow when the moment&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I have the same shirt on I had that day. It&#8217;s a nice shirt. Durable. Also has the logo in the old font, which I like better. Classic. The funniest thing ever would be if Seth Meyers opened Weekend Update with a graphic of Bin Laden and said &#8220;Well don&#8217;t I feel like a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1009\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Morning After&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}