{"id":19588,"date":"2022-10-29T04:03:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T02:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=19588"},"modified":"2022-10-29T04:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T02:03:36","slug":"the-teenage-detective-viewpoint-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=19588","title":{"rendered":"The teenage detective viewpoint on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was, and remain, a voracious reader, of all kinds of books, on all subjects, written from disparate, sometimes even abhorrent, perspectives. At that time, I was preoccupied with processing what I had seen in Iraq. I read Sun Tzu&#8217;s <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><em>The Art of War<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Carl von Clausewitz&#8217;s<\/span> <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><em>On War<\/em><\/span>. I loved YA novels, and was especially taken with a series of epistolary novels told through the text messages of teenaged detectives. I must have read 150 books in my time at Quantico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Chelsea Manning, <em>README.txt<\/em>, (London: <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">The Bodley Head<\/span>, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2022), 181-182<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was, and remain, a voracious reader, of all kinds of books, on all subjects, written from disparate, sometimes even abhorrent, perspectives. At that time, I was preoccupied with processing what I had seen in Iraq. I read Sun Tzu&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=19588\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}