{"id":27167,"date":"2013-09-09T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=27167"},"modified":"2013-09-09T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:17:13","slug":"chewing-qat-with-a-spork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=27167","title":{"rendered":"Chewing Qat with a spork?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a popular catch-phrase fumbled ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-spork.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-spork.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC spork\" width=\"602\" height=\"632\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-spork.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-spork-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>TE Lawrence<\/strong> was an original. The &#8220;second senior official&#8221; either has a poor memory for quotations, or wishes he were an original, sad in either case.<\/p>\n<p>Hat-tip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/learning-to-eat-cheerios-with-a-fork\">Small Wars Journal editors<\/a>, who noted the combo &#8212; they referenced <strong>John Nagl<\/strong>, who borrowed his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Learning-Eat-Soup-Knife-Counterinsurgency\/dp\/0226567702\">book title<\/a> from Lawrence, while I prefer to attribute the spoon to Lawrence directly, but no matter.<\/p>\n<p>What comes next?  Chewing Qat with a spork?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a popular catch-phrase fumbled ] . ** TE Lawrence was an original. The &#8220;second senior official&#8221; either has a poor memory for quotations, or wishes he were an original, sad in either case. Hat-tip to the Small Wars Journal editors, who noted the combo &#8212; they referenced John Nagl, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,126,371,424,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-counterinsurgency","category-humor","category-john-nagl","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27174,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167\/revisions\/27174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}