{"id":174,"date":"2003-11-12T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T13:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=174"},"modified":"2003-11-12T23:47:32","modified_gmt":"2003-11-12T13:47:32","slug":"objective-curley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/12\/objective-curley","title":{"rendered":"Objective Curley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White Glenn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/012476.php\">linked<\/a> to a Veteran&#8217;s Day story about the leadership shown by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/005079.php\">Captain Harry (Zan) Hornbuckle<\/a>. It&#8217;s an impressive story: a group of soldiers are thrown together, given very little time to coalesce as a team, told to secure an area, come under heave attack (300 against 80), and end up saving the day. There&#8217;s even a point where hope seems lost, but is suddenly recovered by the arrival of reinforcements.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, you don&#8217;t need me to tell you that, you can go read it. What I wanted to say was in response to the first sentence of that article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Reader and Rocket Man colleague John Beukema directs our attention to a page-one story by Jonathan Eig in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, &#8220;Why you&#8217;ve heard of Jessica Lynch, not Zan Hornbukckle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But reading that story, I started getting a sense of deja vu &#8212; that I had actually heard it before. Turns out I was right, the story had already circulated around the Internet; eg Sgt Stryker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgtstryker.com\/weblog\/archives\/003451.php\">linked<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/strategypage.com\/iraqwar\/taking_baghdad.asp\">the StrategyPage<\/a> description on June 10th. Advantage: blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2003\/11\/15:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocnus.net\/artman\/publish\/article_8259.shtml\">a better rendition<\/a> of the WSJ story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Glenn linked to a Veteran&#8217;s Day story about the leadership shown by Captain Harry (Zan) Hornbuckle. It&#8217;s an impressive story: a group of soldiers are thrown together, given very little time to coalesce as a team, told to secure an area, come under heave attack (300 against 80), and end up saving the day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}