{"id":6398,"date":"2012-03-21T04:24:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T04:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2012-03-21T04:24:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T04:24:40","slug":"efforts-have-been-made-to-distort-my-position-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=6398","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Efforts have been made to distort my position. It has been said in effect that I was a warmonger. Nothing could be further from the truth. I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me\u2014and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes&#8230; But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War&#8217;s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there can be no substitute for victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Relief_of_General_Douglas_MacArthur\">President Truman&#8217;s relief of General Douglas MacArthur &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts have been made to distort my position. It has been said in effect that I was a warmonger. Nothing could be further from the truth. I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me\u2014and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=6398\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}