{"id":160915,"date":"2024-09-11T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=160915"},"modified":"2024-09-11T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:13:00","slug":"midweek-open-thread-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=160915","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/September-11-2001-terrorist-attacks-New-York-City.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-160916\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/September-11-2001-terrorist-attacks-New-York-City.jpeg?resize=300%2C198&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/September-11-2001-terrorist-attacks-New-York-City.jpeg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/September-11-2001-terrorist-attacks-New-York-City.jpeg?resize=500%2C329&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/September-11-2001-terrorist-attacks-New-York-City.jpeg?resize=768%2C506&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/September-11-2001-terrorist-attacks-New-York-City.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1011&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/September-11-2001-terrorist-attacks-New-York-City.jpeg?w=1660&amp;ssl=1 1660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not a holiday, but it is Wednesday&#8230; The U.S. may have closed down nearly two decades of major military operations dealing with the War on Terror, but our adversaries have not. Their ultimate goal is global Islamic law, and they&#8217;ve collectively and individually been at this objective since early in the Medieval Period. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How are we doing so far?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a holiday, but it is Wednesday&#8230; The U.S. may have closed down nearly two decades of major military operations dealing with the War on Terror, but our adversaries have not. Their ultimate goal is global Islamic law, and they&#8217;ve collectively and individually been at this objective since early in the Medieval Period. How are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-FRp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}