{"id":812,"date":"2004-09-13T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/09\/the_royal_treatment\/"},"modified":"2004-09-13T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T17:45:10","slug":"the_royal_treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/09\/the_royal_treatment.html","title":{"rendered":"THE ROYAL TREATMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Sy Hersh is getting the royal treatment from Rummy Boy &#038; Co. Here, just for fun, is the<br \/>\nofficial <A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/releases\/2004\/nr20040910-1240.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Department of Defense Statement on the Seymour<br \/>\nHersh Book<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. It&#8217;s not often an author gets such a send-off, even if the title of<br \/>\nthe book, <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060195916\/qid=1095086551\/sr=ka-2\/ref=pd\n_ka_2\/104-7952028-8954301\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;Chain of Command :<br \/>\nThe Road from 9\/11 to Abu Ghraib,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> goes unmentioned. See&nbsp;<A\nclass=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20040901.shtml#86872\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>why<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> and <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5961797\/\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>why<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>&nbsp;and <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,,1303078,00.html\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>especially why<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>: an excerpt from the book telling how<br \/>\nRummy Boy &#8220;gave the green light to a secret unit authorized to torture terrorist suspects.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sy Hersh is getting the royal treatment from Rummy Boy &#038; Co. Here, just for fun, is the official Department of Defense Statement on the Seymour Hersh Book. It&#8217;s not often an author gets such a send-off, even if the title of the book, &#8220;Chain of Command : The Road from 9\/11 to Abu Ghraib,&#8221; [&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-812","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-d6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","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=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}