{"id":983,"date":"2006-01-27T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:33","slug":"a_contest_worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"A Contest Worth Entering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing around this morning, I stumbled on an interesting milblog &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/willtoexist.com\/\" target=\"browser\">The Will To Exist<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; self-described as &#8216;a deist transhumanist libertarian minarchist citizen soldier&#8217;s blog.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>You ought to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>One thing they <a href=\"http:\/\/willtoexist.com\/?page_id=356\" target=\"browser\">are doing<\/a>, which we&#8217;ll support pretty fervently, is running <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230;an essay contest open to soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines serving with Multi-National Force Iraq (anywhere in the country of Iraq). If you left MNF-I within the last year, or have orders to MNF-I, or are currently serving here, you\u2019re eligible to enter the contest.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 500-1000 words, explain why you are in Iraq.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They say<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This contest has its genesis in the idea that this war will be won or lost based not on weapons or troop strength but based on public perception. Without the support of the American public, Iraq will not become free.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say, absolutely right. Which will lead to a longer post on some of the issues I&#8217;ve raised in the past re the current Administration and their shortcomings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing around this morning, I stumbled on an interesting milblog &#8211; &#8220;The Will To Exist&#8221; &#8211; self-described as &#8216;a deist transhumanist libertarian minarchist citizen soldier&#8217;s blog.&#8217; You ought to check it out. One thing they are doing, which we&#8217;ll support pretty fervently, is running &#8230;an essay contest open to soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines serving [&hellip;]<\/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\/983"}],"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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}