{"id":375,"date":"2005-05-23T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=375"},"modified":"2005-05-23T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T19:09:40","slug":"so-much-for-the-poster-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"So much for the poster boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2005\/US\/05\/23\/tilman.probe.ap\/vert.tillman.jpg\" alt=\"tillman\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Army blew up its own you-could-be-this-guy role model in a friendly fire incident, covers up the details of his death, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/05\/23\/tilman.probe.ap\/index.html\">wonders why his parents are having a fit<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;After it happened, all the people in positions of authority went out of their way to script this,&#8221; the father said. &#8220;They purposely interfered with the investigation, they covered it up. I think they thought they could control it, and they realized that their recruiting efforts were going to go to hell in a handbasket if the truth about his death got out. They blew up their poster boy.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, I wonder why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infozine.com\/news\/stories\/op\/storiesView\/sid\/7879\/\">recruitment is down<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Army blows up its own role model in a friendly fire incident, and now the Pentago wonders why receruitment is down?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}