{"id":1331,"date":"2007-02-08T06:41:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T06:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-02-08T06:42:47","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T06:42:47","slug":"paying_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"Paying Up…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, Jonah Goldberg offered<\/a> to bet Juan Cole $1,000 that the Iraqi and American people would – in two years’ time – feel strongly that the war was worth it (and that there would be no civil war, and some other related points).<\/p>\n

Now I’ll yield to very few people in my low opinion of Professor Cole and his views.<\/p>\n

But a bet’s a bet. And Goldberg is now skirting dangerously close to the man-law violation of welching<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s my take. Jonah, write a check for $1K to Soldier’s Angels. They can use it, and it will improve your karma. Cole may not have accepted the bet, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t make it.<\/p>\n

And monkyboy, wherever you are – that goes for you, too. Pay up, dude. Your soul will be lighter for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonah Goldberg ought to pay up.<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}