{"id":241,"date":"2005-07-28T13:05:59","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T17:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2005-07-28T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T19:32:05","slug":"over-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/28\/over-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Over easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/over_there2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"over there2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/over_there2.jpg\" width=\"366\" height=\"156\" alt=\"over there2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Bochco&#8217;s <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fxnetworks.com\/shows\/originals\/overthere\/main.html\">Over There<\/a>, a new FX series about soldiers in Iraq, debuted last nite. I was a little disappointed, and not at all bothered by the fact that it&#8217;s about a war that&#8217;s <i>still going on<\/i>.  What with embedded journalists and cameras on the tips of missiles, I&#8217;ve seen all the war footage I need to see. <\/p>\n<p>One thing that really bothered me&#8230; The climax of the first episode was a gun fight between insurgents holed up in a mosque and US troops. The insurgents decided to make a frontal assault on a dug-in group of US troops. I thought the real situation is more like Vietnam, where we don&#8217;t know who to even shoot anymore. I haven&#8217;t heard about many actual battles since the Republican Guard surrendered. But as a viewer, I got to feel the satisfaction of alot of dead Iraqis. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and another thing: during the show there was an ad for a <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/news\/2005\/07\/12\/news_6128901.html\">Black Hawk Down<\/a> game that takes place in the Somalian capital where so many marines died. Now that&#8217;s pretty fucking sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Bochco&#8217;s Over There, a new FX series about soldiers in Iraq, debuted last nite. I was a little disappointed, and not at all bothered by the fact that it&#8217;s about a war that&#8217;s still going on. What with embedded journalists and cameras on the tips of missiles, I&#8217;ve seen all the war footage I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}