{"id":6225,"date":"2007-06-27T12:27:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/ponder-this\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:27:44","slug":"ponder-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/ponder-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponder This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_off_Samar#US_Destroyer_counterattack\">vision<\/a> of Sprague&#8217;s three destroyers . . . charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of Kurita&#8217;s battleships and cruisers, can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don&#8217;t have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Herman Wouk<br \/>\nWar and Remembrance<\/p>\n<p>Cross posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/space4commerce.blogspot.com\/\">Space For Commerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The vision of Sprague&#8217;s three destroyers . . . charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of Kurita&#8217;s battleships and cruisers, can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don&#8217;t have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it.&#8217;&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}