{"id":14099,"date":"2026-01-11T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14099"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:32:00","slug":"hearts-and-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14099","title":{"rendered":"Hearts And Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a pro Vietnam war poster I used to see back in the day that said &#8220;When you have them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14100\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/venezuelaarmedroadblocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/venezuelaarmedroadblocks.jpg 572w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/venezuelaarmedroadblocks-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That was before we had to bail out of Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>No&#8230;their hearts and minds do not follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a pro Vietnam war poster I used to see back in the day that said &#8220;When you have them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. That was before we had to bail out of Vietnam. No&#8230;their hearts and minds do not follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-14099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099","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=14099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14103,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions\/14103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}