{"id":508,"date":"2003-12-15T01:26:05","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/12\/the_wildman_of_tikrit\/"},"modified":"2003-12-15T01:26:05","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T09:26:05","slug":"the_wildman_of_tikrit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/12\/the_wildman_of_tikrit.html","title":{"rendered":"THE WILDMAN OF TIKRIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Is this <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YZSRKDDTGQDBYCRBAEOCFE\nY?type=topNews&#038;storyID=3993407\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>Reuters<br \/>\nreport<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> true, or an urban legend in the making? &#8220;I&#8217;m Saddam Hussein,&#8221;<br \/>\nthe <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/image\/20031214\/TOPIX_IRAQ_SADDAM_CAPTURE.sff_LO\nN828_20031214165752.html?date=20031215&#038;docid=D7VETDS81\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>man with the scruffy beard<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> said in English when U.S.<br \/>\ntroops found him in a dirt hole. &#8220;I&#8217;m the president of Iraq and I&#8217;m willing to negotiate.&#8221; In English,<br \/>\nno less. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>When it comes to negotiations, how about finding his alleged Swiss bank accounts. The<br \/>\nbillions said to be&nbsp;there&nbsp;could go a long way to relieving American taxpayers of some<br \/>\nof the Iraq reconstruction burden.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this Reuters report true, or an urban legend in the making? &#8220;I&#8217;m Saddam Hussein,&#8221; the man with the scruffy beard said in English when U.S. troops found him in a dirt hole. &#8220;I&#8217;m the president of Iraq and I&#8217;m willing to negotiate.&#8221; In English, no less. When it comes to negotiations, how about finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}