{"id":6918,"date":"2010-08-24T00:40:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T06:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2010-08-22T21:47:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T03:47:52","slug":"us-mission-in-iraq-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/24\/us-mission-in-iraq-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"US Mission in Iraq Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last &#8220;combat&#8221; units of American Soldiers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/54809\/last-us-brigade-combat-team-conducts-movement-out-iraq\">have left Iraq<\/a>, though more than 50,000 troops remain under a new role that will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=60509\">formalized September 1st<\/a> as Operation <em>Iraqi Freedom <\/em>is replaced by Operation<em> New Dawn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4400 American lives have been lost to &#8220;restore&#8221; Iraq to what it is today.\u00a0 May their sacrifice not have been in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last &#8220;combat&#8221; units of American Soldiers have left Iraq, though more than 50,000 troops remain under a new role that will be formalized September 1st as Operation Iraqi Freedom is replaced by Operation New Dawn. More than 4400 American lives have been lost to &#8220;restore&#8221; Iraq to what it is today.\u00a0 May their sacrifice not have been in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52,922,2,923,921],"class_list":["post-6918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-iraq","tag-iraqi-freedom","tag-military","tag-new-dawn","tag-oif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}