{"id":2694,"date":"2015-03-10T11:33:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2015-03-10T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:33:41","slug":"wwiii-_____-vs-_____","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"WWIII &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; _____ VS _____"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who will be the contestants in World\u00a0 War III?<\/p>\n<p>One thing is becoming obvious.\u00a0 It will not be the United States on one side against the bad guys.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the dictators of the world competing for the prize of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like half a dozen contestants now, but watch them join coalitions with each other, to win.\u00a0 (We heard the first announcement of such this week.)\u00a0 And then they can go back to fighting between themselves, if any rubble is left to fight over.<\/p>\n<p>The future is here.\u00a0 The one sure thing is that modern weapons of war can, and will, plunge the world back a few hundred years overnight.\u00a0 And who can survive that?<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought&#8212;Islam has a way of keeping &#8220;civilizations&#8221; in the dark ages.\u00a0 So I guess they are okay with going back there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who will be the contestants in World\u00a0 War III? One thing is becoming obvious.\u00a0 It will not be the United States on one side against the bad guys. It will be the dictators of the world competing for the prize of the United States. It looks like half a dozen contestants now, but watch them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}