{"id":42738,"date":"2025-06-28T03:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=42738"},"modified":"2025-06-28T03:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:50:45","slug":"a-brief-interlude-of-weather-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=42738","title":{"rendered":"A brief interlude [of weather, at last]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After Alturas there were winds, trains and then, though not so much on us,<\/p>\n

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rains.\u00a0 Also whitetop, tamarisk and all those delicious after rain smells.<\/p>\n

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A welcome respite, despite<\/p>\n

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OLD’s Brilliant Victory as predictably lauded by his “presentable” presenter P. Hegseth; \u201cLet me read the bottom line here. President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history. And it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement and the end of the 12 Day War.\u201d<\/p>\n

In history. <\/em>Got that?”<\/p>\n

[Does anybody believe this shit?\u00a0 Unfortunately, yes, many of whom will no doubt mistake that conspicuously folded patriotic pocket square Pete sports for some sort of military decoration. And it’s only getting worse, day by day.\u00a0 Nobel Peace Prize, anyone?]<\/p>\n

“Hegseth was standing there in the Pentagon where General George C. Marshall, working in conjunction with General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British General Bernard Montgomery and General Omar Bradley planned and executed the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944.”<\/p>\n

[In history. <\/em>Got that?]<\/p>\n

[quotes et al courtesy of\u00a0Lucian C. Truscott lV]<\/a><\/p>\n

…”Intolerance and fear\/ignorance and lies”…oh hell yeh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Alturas there were winds, trains and then, though not so much on us, rains.\u00a0 Also whitetop, tamarisk and all those delicious after rain smells. A welcome respite, despite OLD’s Brilliant Victory as predictably lauded by his “presentable” presenter P. Hegseth; \u201cLet me read the bottom line here. President Trump directed the most complex and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42738"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42792,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738\/revisions\/42792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}