{"id":370,"date":"2003-04-25T22:12:24","date_gmt":"2003-04-26T03:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=370"},"modified":"2003-04-25T22:12:24","modified_gmt":"2003-04-26T03:12:24","slug":"apples_to_apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/25\/apples_to_apple.html","title":{"rendered":"Apples to apples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cool site that compares Baghdad<\/a> in size to other cities, with maps, so that when you’re wondering exactly how far Ministry A is from Air Base B, you can compare it to distances you do <\/i>know.<\/p>\n

This is, alas, a little late in being blogged about, but it’s still cool.<\/p>\n

(via xBlog<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cool site that compares Baghdad in size to other cities, with maps, so that when you’re wondering exactly how far Ministry A is from Air Base B, you can compare…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30210,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/lies-damn-lies-and-apples-to-oranges-statistics.html","url_meta":{"origin":370,"position":0},"title":"Lies, Damn Lies, and Apples-to-Oranges Statistics","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Sep-12 1:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"One can certainly discuss and debate comparisons of unemployment rates between January 2009 (when Obama took office) and today. \u00a0One can discuss at what point Obama's policies can be deemed to have actually been able to any effect, or how rates were actually trending at those two points, or what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":444,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/14\/i_wonder_if_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":370,"position":1},"title":"I wonder if they can get their medals back","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Apr-03 9:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"No wonder Russia is having so much trouble in Chechnya. 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