{"id":1132,"date":"2008-01-17T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T23:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1132"},"modified":"2008-01-17T18:59:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T23:59:04","slug":"haffner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1132","title":{"rendered":"Haffner&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I can only smile ruefully when I consider how prepared I was for the adventure that awaited me.&nbsp; I was not prepared at all.&nbsp; I had no skills in boxing or jujitsu, not to mention smuggling, crossing boarders illegally, using secret codes, and so on:&nbsp; skills that would have stood me in good stead in the coming years.&nbsp; My spiritual preparation for what was ahead was almost equally inadequate.&nbsp; Is it not said in peacetime the chiefs of staff always prepare their armies as well as possible &#8211; for the previous war?&nbsp; I cannot judge the truth of that, but it is certainly true that conscientious parents always educate their sons for the era that is just over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Sebastian Haffner, <\/em><em>&quot;Defying Hitler &#8211; A Memoir&quot;<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230; I can only smile ruefully when I consider how prepared I was for the adventure that awaited me.&nbsp; I was not prepared at all.&nbsp; I had no skills in boxing or jujitsu, not to mention smuggling, crossing boarders illegally, using secret codes, and so on:&nbsp; skills that would have stood me in good stead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}