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Gary Brooks Faulkner<\/a>: the anti-John Walker Lindh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gary Brooks Faulkner: the anti-John Walker Lindh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[998],"tags":[1054,524,1055],"class_list":["post-5390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-sir-are-bad-ass","tag-gary-brooks-faulkner","tag-john-walker-lindh","tag-osama-bin-laden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1oW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3282,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pardon-the-interruption","url_meta":{"origin":5390,"position":0},"title":"Pardon the Interruption","author":"Gil","date":"January 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I was happy to see that our new president made the same flub in his oath of office that I did during my marriage vows, speaking before the officiant finished his first line. 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