{"id":38795837,"date":"2005-05-05T00:59:31","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T00:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2005\/05\/send-your-ribbo.html"},"modified":"2013-04-11T02:54:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:54:49","slug":"200505send-your-ribbo-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2005\/05\/05\/200505send-your-ribbo-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Send Your Ribbon Magnets to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media_httpcaseycomblo_hxnce\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/cmcimport.files.wordpress.com\/2005\/05\/media_httpcaseycomblo_hxnce-scaled500.jpg\" width=\"160\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I wrote previously about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/bumper_stickers.html\">ribbon magnets on cars<\/a>.  Personally I find them to be a pretty empty gesture of support for anything. Functionally, it&#8217;s a bumpersticker.  That&#8217;s fine.  But does this claim to &#8216;Support Our Troops&#8217; actually support them?  How often is such a widely held sentiment backed up by more meaningful action?  As he <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/sutton_on_bush.html\">so often<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/karl_rove_sums.html\">has before<\/a>, Ward Sutton has captured my feelings on them perfectly with his suggestion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/villagevoice.com\/news\/0518%2Csutton%2C63595%2C9.html\">Yellow-Ribbon Magnets as Humvee Armor?<\/a><br \/>by Ward Sutton<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote previously about ribbon magnets on cars. Personally I find them to be a pretty empty gesture of support for anything. Functionally, it&#8217;s a bumpersticker. That&#8217;s fine. But does this claim to &#8216;Support Our Troops&#8217; actually support them? How o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMzj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38795837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354556,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795837\/revisions\/173354556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38795837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38795837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38795837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}