{"id":3403,"date":"2007-05-03T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2007-05-03T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T18:40:17","slug":"al-qaeda-incorporated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/03\/al-qaeda-incorporated\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda Incorporated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US says it has <a href='http:\/\/news.google.com\/?ncl=1115914013&#038;hl=en'>killed yet another &#8220;senior al-Qaida leader&#8221;<\/a>.  Not bin Laden, someone a few boxes down on the org chart.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell that the folks running this war have spent their entire lives in politics or the military.  If they had spent some time in the business world, they&#8217;d know that the  quickest way to cripple an organization is to <em>increase<\/em> its ranks of middle-management, not thin them.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of firing laser-guided missiles at these guys, we should be sending them laser pointers and complementary copies of <em>Powerpoint<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US says it has killed yet another &#8220;senior al-Qaida leader&#8221;. Not bin Laden, someone a few boxes down on the org chart. You can tell that the folks running this war have spent their entire lives in politics or the military. If they had spent some time in the business world, they&#8217;d know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}