{"id":770,"date":"2005-04-27T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T04:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=770"},"modified":"2005-04-27T23:09:55","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T04:09:55","slug":"crying-wolf-in-the-land-of-the-mapleleaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Crying Wolf in the Land of the Mapleleaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Brooks at <a href=\"http:\/\/babblingbrooks.blogspot.com\/\">Babbling Brooks<\/a> been pointing out the shriveling of the Canadian military for some time.  Now, in <a href=\"http:\/\/babblingbrooks.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/when-will-they-listen.html\">one thorough post<\/a>, he collects a lengthy listing of evidence that is, to say the least, very persuasive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You spot shadows in the woods and yell &#8216;wolf&#8217;. Everyone ignores you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it all.  Our neighbors up north have certainly taken a leisurely walk down the path of international obsolescence, whistling merrily along the way.  Had the country a fraction of the love and respect for their military and its past glory that it did for hockey, Damian&#8217;s efforts would not be needed.<\/p>\n<p>Also, read the comments for a good Tolkien analogy and this sad observation from Damian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our military is collapsing, and Canadians don&#8217;t seem to care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Brooks at Babbling Brooks been pointing out the shriveling of the Canadian military for some time. Now, in one thorough post, he collects a lengthy listing of evidence that is, to say the least, very persuasive. You spot shadows in the woods and yell &#8216;wolf&#8217;. Everyone ignores you. Read it all. Our neighbors up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}