{"id":830,"date":"2004-01-21T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T00:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=830"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:58:22","slug":"taking-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Taking Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--107472009926161303--><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><em>&#8220;It could take years before investigators are able to uncover the details of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/01\/21\/sprj.nirq.main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Iraq&#8217;s weapons of mass destruction programs<\/strong><\/a> under Saddam Hussein, according to the House Intelligence Committee&#8217;s chairman.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And, you know what? This is gonna be just fine. Our goverment has all the time in the world to find those WMD&#8217;s &#8217;cause our troops are still gonna to be over there long after I&#8217;m dead. Wanna bet on that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It could take years before investigators are able to uncover the details of Iraq&#8217;s weapons of mass destruction programs under Saddam Hussein, according to the House Intelligence Committee&#8217;s chairman.&#8221; And, you know what? This is gonna be just fine. Our goverment has all the time in the world to find those WMD&#8217;s &#8217;cause our troops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-do","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12016,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/12016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}