{"id":868,"date":"2008-04-16T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T20:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2008-04-16T15:28:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T20:28:05","slug":"3-trillion-is-a-very-big-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"3 trillion is a very big number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 trillion dollars is the estimated cost of the Iraq war, an outlay that was totally avoidable and which could have been used for other purposes, or never borrowed in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers that big make your brain go numb. They are literally incomprehensible. This <a href=\"http:\/\/3trillion.org\/?play=1?utm_source=rgemail\">site<\/a> tries to make them somewhat comprehensible. <\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lgq5suMXCV8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 trillion dollars is the estimated cost of the Iraq war, an outlay that was totally avoidable and which could have been used for other purposes, or never borrowed in the first place. Numbers that big make your brain go numb. They are literally incomprehensible. This site tries to make them somewhat comprehensible. [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lgq5suMXCV8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}