{"id":19516,"date":"2014-12-31T01:16:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T09:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=19516"},"modified":"2014-12-31T01:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T09:16:51","slug":"a-pair-of-good-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/a-pair-of-good-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"A pair of good reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for the long, idle post-celebration hours ahead.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>The Atlantic<\/i> James Fallows writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2014\/12\/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military\/383516\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Tragedy of the American Military&#8221;<\/a>. How we can reflexively say, &#8220;Thank you for your service&#8221; and claim that all soldiers are heroes &#8212; precisely because most of us are so removed from the realities of their lives, their missions, and the management of military matters.<\/p>\n<p>The German &#8216;zine <i>Spiegel Online<\/i> goes inside the NSA for an educated guess about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-1010361.html\" target=\"_blank\">what types of encryption the NSA has broken<\/a>, which it&#8217;s working on, and which are so far safe from its prying eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Both articles are longish but very worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for the long, idle post-celebration hours ahead. In The Atlantic James Fallows writes about &#8220;The Tragedy of the American Military&#8221;. How we can reflexively say, &#8220;Thank you for your service&#8221; and claim that all soldiers are heroes &#8212; precisely because most of us are so removed from the realities of their lives, their missions, and the management of military matters. The German &#8216;zine Spiegel Online goes inside the NSA for an educated guess about what types of encryption the NSA has broken, which it&#8217;s working on, and which are so far safe from its prying eyes. Both articles are&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/a-pair-of-good-reads\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A pair of good reads<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}