{"id":771,"date":"2008-02-22T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/21\/priorities\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T22:03:51","slug":"priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/22\/priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Priorities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now spending $9 billion per <em>month<\/em> in Iraq.  <\/p>\n<p>Not having much experience with billions, I wondered:  How does that compare to something like what the City of Chicago spends to run all city services and functions for a year?<\/p>\n<p>The City of Chicago spent $5.7 to run itself for the <em>twelve months<\/em> of 2007.  <\/p>\n<p>Other ways to understand how much $9 billion is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now spending $9 billion per month in Iraq. Not having much experience with billions, I wondered: How does that compare to something like what the City of Chicago spends to run all city services and functions for a year? The City of Chicago spent $5.7 to run itself for the twelve months of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/22\/priorities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Priorities?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}