{"id":8264,"date":"2011-09-02T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T17:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2011-09-02T19:56:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T00:56:27","slug":"how-the-rebels-won-in-libya-lawyers-guns-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=8264","title":{"rendered":"How the Rebels Won in Libya: Lawyers, Guns and Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/military\/news\/the-war-in-libya-as-explained-by-warren-zevon-analysis?click=pm_latest\">At least according to this article in <i>Popular Mechanics<\/i><\/a> (<i>Popular Mechanics<\/i>? Really? Well, it&#8217;s under &#8220;Military News,&#8221; so I suppose it sort of fits), which makes the Warren Zevon reference explicit.<\/p>\n<p>However, they inexplicably forgot to embed a video of the song. I&#8217;m here to correct that oversight. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S5puAN1PGQw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/127255\/\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least according to this article in Popular Mechanics (Popular Mechanics? Really? Well, it&#8217;s under &#8220;Military News,&#8221; so I suppose it sort of fits), which makes the Warren Zevon reference explicit. However, they inexplicably forgot to embed a video of the song. I&#8217;m here to correct that oversight. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1039,1040,1304],"class_list":["post-8264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","tag-libya","tag-moammar-gadhafi","tag-warren-zevon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8284,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/8284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}