{"id":14439,"date":"2003-12-14T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/14\/saddam-hussein-captured\/"},"modified":"2003-12-14T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-14T17:26:00","slug":"saddam-hussein-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/14\/saddam-hussein-captured\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam Hussein Captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">After months of eluding Coalition forces, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/meast\/12\/14\/sprj.irq.main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saddam Hussein was captured last night in a &ldquo;spider hole&rdquo; in Tikrit<\/a>.  Authorities said he was talkative, but &ldquo;tired and haggard, unrepentant, even defiant.&rdquo;  I think he&rsquo;s just pissed off that they found him looking like Nick Nolte. \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">(The mug shot works, but Ulana pointed out that a picture from <i>Down and Out in Beverly Hills<\/i> would be perfect.)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/meast\/12\/14\/sprj.irq.main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Saddam Hussein captured\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/saddamhussein_captured.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Nolte mugshot\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/nicknolte_mugshot.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107142278470806206?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of eluding Coalition forces, Saddam Hussein was captured last night in a &ldquo;spider hole&rdquo; in Tikrit. Authorities said he was talkative, but &ldquo;tired and haggard, unrepentant, even defiant.&rdquo; I think he&rsquo;s just pissed off that they found him looking like Nick Nolte. \ud83d\ude09 (The mug shot works, but Ulana pointed out that a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/14\/saddam-hussein-captured\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saddam Hussein Captured&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}