{"id":2219,"date":"2007-05-04T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2007-05-04T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T04:05:00","slug":"2219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>EARLY RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>Normally, I do this on Sunday but whenever I have a &#8220;surge&#8221; at work, there seems to be ten million things to post about, none of which I have time to do. These blogfriends have great material up that I&#8217;d like to highlight in the interim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/\"><strong>Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/strong> <\/a>&#8211;  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/stateoftheworldblog-2\">The State of the World: Author&#8217;s Commentary Track &#8211; Page 2<\/a>&#8221; in Esquire ( with fantastic Halle Berry cover). Hat tip to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanmeade.blogspot.com\/\">Sean<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Some timely <strong><em>Brave New War<\/em><\/strong> reviews by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shloky.com\/?p=646\"> <strong>Shloky<\/strong> <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/reviewing-brave-new-war.html\"><strong>Fester<\/strong> at <strong>Newshoggers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The vibrant &#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/council.smallwarsjournal.com\/showthread.php?t=2780\">Army Squeezes Soldier&#8217;s Blogs, maybe to Death<\/a>&#8221; thread at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/council.smallwarsjournal.com\/index.php\">The Small Wars Council<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; which drew a choice comment from me<strong>.<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EARLY RECOMMENDED READINGNormally, I do this on Sunday but whenever I have a &#8220;surge&#8221; at work, there seems to be ten million things to post about, none of which I have time to do. These blogfriends have great material up that I&#8217;d like to highlight in the interim. Thomas P.M. Barnett &#8211; &#8220;The State of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}