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Evidently, the new Spanish prime minister has awarded military medals<\/a> to his generals who withdrew<\/em> troops from Iraq. The defense minister gave his back, out of embarrassment. No word on whether he threw his medals (or someone else’s) over a fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evidently, the new Spanish prime minister has awarded military medals to his generals who withdrew troops from Iraq. The defense minister gave his back, out of embarrassment. No word on whether he threw his medals (or someone else’s) over a fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-4o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12190,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-314-mark-alan-stamaty","url_meta":{"origin":272,"position":0},"title":"Episode 314 – Mark Alan Stamaty","author":"Gil","date":"March 31, 2019","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 314: Mark Alan Stamaty \"MacDoodle St. is the closest I ever got to the direction I wanted to go with my work.\" To celebrate the new 40th anniversary edition of MacDoodle St. (New York Review Comics), Mark Alan Stamaty joins the show for a conversation about that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/macdoodle_cover_NEW_2048x2048.jpg?fit=1200%2C772&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/macdoodle_cover_NEW_2048x2048.jpg?fit=1200%2C772&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/macdoodle_cover_NEW_2048x2048.jpg?fit=1200%2C772&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/macdoodle_cover_NEW_2048x2048.jpg?fit=1200%2C772&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/macdoodle_cover_NEW_2048x2048.jpg?fit=1200%2C772&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10252,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-211-john-cuneo","url_meta":{"origin":272,"position":1},"title":"Episode 211 – John Cuneo","author":"Gil","date":"March 27, 2017","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 211: John Cuneo \"These drawings were made with no intention of anyone ever seeing them. 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