{"id":810,"date":"2009-05-18T21:23:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T02:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/05\/18\/may-18\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T21:23:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T02:23:51","slug":"may-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/may-18\/","title":{"rendered":"May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Oren, author of the excellent <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0195151747\/713713713-20\">Six Days of War<\/a><\/em> and recently appointed Israeli ambassador to the United States, has an essay on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/viewarticle.cfm\/seven-existential-threats-15124\">Seven Existential Threats<\/a>&#8221; to Israel.&#160; There really is no reason why Israel should exist twenty years from now.&#160; (Except God.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img297.imageshack.us\/img297\/5927\/wallstatsdatlarge.jpg\">Fascinating wall chart<\/a> on where tax dollars come and go.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/library\/2009\/04\/the_granting_of_patent_7508978.html\">The Secret of Google&#8217;s Book Scanning Machine Revealed<\/a> (NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you: I am <em>not<\/em> going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/latestnews\/stories\/051009dnmetjurydutyfolo.ca8e531.html\">missing jury duty<\/a> as long as I live in Collin County!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1031sermonjams.com\/\">Don&#8217;t Waste Your Life Sermon Jams<\/a>.&#160; There&#8217;s a sample at the bottom.&#160; $2.50 for a CD, $15 for 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Oren, author of the excellent Six Days of War and recently appointed Israeli ambassador to the United States, has an essay on &#8220;Seven Existential Threats&#8221; to Israel.&#160; There really is no reason why Israel should exist twenty years from now.&#160; (Except God.) Fascinating wall chart on where tax dollars come and go.&#160; The Secret\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/may-18\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-modern-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}