{"id":1586,"date":"2007-12-08T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-12-08T19:09:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T19:09:22","slug":"dont_bogart_tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Bogart That Joint, Prof. Nagl&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m East for a wedding, and while I wait for TG to suit up, I&#8217;m catching up on reading. I&#8217;ve bought a stack of books for Biggest Guy, and am slowly reading down them myself while I wait to give them to him. <\/p>\n<p>So I just started the counterinsurgency classic, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0226567702?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=armedliberal-20&#038;link_code=as3&#038;camp=211189&#038;creative=373489&#038;creativeASIN=0226567702\" target=\"browser\">Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife<\/a>&#8216;, by Nagl. And found a funny typo &#8211; or a suggestion that West Point (where he was a professor) isn&#8217;t as straight-laced as it&#8217;s reputation. From the Acknowledgements:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Special thanks to my mother and mother-in law, both of whom found books and provided emotional support and diversions from writing. Like mother, like daughter: Susi has fought insurgents in <b>her pot plants<\/b> and over the kitchen table as well as on the computer keyboard.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew it was so much like UC Santa Cruz?? So far it does look like a damn interesting book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, OK, I thought this was funny&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}