{"id":25004,"date":"2011-03-10T17:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/putting_afghan_plan_into_action_proves_difficult\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:20:33","slug":"putting_afghan_plan_into_action_proves_difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25004","title":{"rendered":"Putting Afghan Plan Into Action Proves Difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the American-led fight against the Taliban was once a contest for influence in well-known and conventionally defined areas \u201d\u201d the capital and large cities, main roads, the border with Pakistan, and a handful of prominent valleys and towns \u201d\u201d today it has become something else.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the United States military has settled into a campaign for scattered villages and bits of terrain that few people beyond their immediate environs have heard of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/09\/world\/asia\/09ghazni.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the American-led fight against the Taliban was once a contest for influence in well-known and conventionally defined areas \u201d\u201d the capital and large cities, main roads, the border with Pakistan, and a handful of prominent valleys and towns \u201d\u201d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25004\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,503,201,143,144,343,151,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}