{"id":2268,"date":"2007-09-22T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/cost-of-war\/"},"modified":"2007-09-22T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T16:14:32","slug":"cost-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/cost-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/21\/AR2007092102074.html?wpisrc=newsletter\">War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says<br \/>\nBy Kari Lydersen, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO, Sept. 21 &#8212; The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on large banners in cities nationwide Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute<\/span>, according to the group&#8217;s analysis of the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard public finance lecturer Linda J. Bilmes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says &#8211; washingtonpost.com War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says By Kari Lydersen, Washington Post Staff Writer CHICAGO, Sept. 21 &#8212; The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/cost-of-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cost of War<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}