{"id":29518,"date":"2010-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/WP-IMPORT\/2010\/06\/01\/intelligence-failures\/"},"modified":"2010-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T03:00:00","slug":"intelligence-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/intelligence-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"750\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" class=\"style1\" scope=\"col\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/WP-IMPORT\/wp-content\/uploads\/old-imgs\/6-1-10-intelligence-failures2.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"96\"\/><br \/> <strong>(Fort Sumpter under attack. Image courtesy American Public University)<br \/> <\/strong> <br \/> The rebels had to fire on the unarmed ship, didn\u2019t they? They could not permit a hostile fort to sit in their midst and be reinforced. <br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Mr. Lincoln got his act of aggression, and a justification to save the Union, though of course the garrison fell. <br \/> \u00a0<br \/> That is the way these things work, and you would think smart people could figure it out. <br \/> \u00a0<br \/> But I suppose that is why they call them intelligence failures.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Copyright 2010 Vic Socotra<br \/> www.vicsocotra.com <br \/> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/vicsocotra.com\/rss2.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe to the RSS feed!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fort Sumpter under attack. Image courtesy American Public University) The rebels had to fire on the unarmed ship, didn\u2019t they? They could not permit a hostile fort to sit in their midst and be reinforced. \u00a0 Mr. Lincoln got his act of aggression, and a justification to save the Union, though of course the garrison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}