{"id":14020,"date":"2021-10-12T14:36:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T18:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2021-10-12T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T18:36:14","slug":"can-we-stop-calling-our-humongous-military-spending-the-defense-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=14020","title":{"rendered":"Can we stop calling our humongous military spending the &#8220;defense&#8221; budget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paging George Orwell: Even antiwar progressives use the term, which suggests how far our discourse has degraded<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/10\/11\/can-we-stop-calling-our-humongous-military-spending-the-defense-budget\/\">Can we stop calling our humongous military spending the &#8220;defense&#8221; budget?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paging George Orwell: Even antiwar progressives use the term, which suggests how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[523,57],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-military","tag-usa","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}