{"id":152,"date":"2004-09-09T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2004-09-09T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T14:05:59","slug":"even-professionals-need-an-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2004\/09\/even-professionals-need-an-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Even professionals need an editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to me by The Girlfriend.  Her employer has a corporate subscription to WSJ.com. From an article on the US military considering putting Halliburton work in Iraq out for bid by others (emphasis is hers though I agree wholeheartedly):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pentagon officials have discussed for months when the Army should revisit KBR&#8217;s main Iraq contract. Under the contract, KBR is meant to serve as an all-purpose, quick-fix contractor to fill the military&#8217;s needs &#8212; everything from running dining halls <i>to providing air-conditioned tents in the desert filled with weight-lifting equipment for the troops.<\/i> The company is then reimbursed for its expenses, plus a profit margin of 1% and a possible 2% bonus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Who filled the desert with weight-lifting equipment?!?!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to me by The Girlfriend. Her employer has a corporate subscription to WSJ.com. From an article on the US military considering putting Halliburton work in Iraq out for bid by others (emphasis is hers though I agree wholeheartedly): Pentagon officials have discussed for months when the Army should revisit KBR&#8217;s main Iraq contract. Under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-funny-bone","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}