{"id":1702,"date":"2011-04-22T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/22\/our-poor-misunderstood-drones\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:31:12","slug":"our-poor-misunderstood-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/04\/22\/our-poor-misunderstood-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Our poor, misunderstood drones!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0NYT<\/em>\u00a0article dryly noted: “Friday\u2019s attack could further fuel antidrone sentiment <\/strong><\/em>among the Pakistani public”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If only the Pakistanis (and the Afghans, and the Yemenis) would learn to stop worrying and love the drone!<\/span><\/p>\n

Our poor, misunderstood drones!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0NYT\u00a0article dryly noted: “Friday\u2019s attack could further fuel antidrone sentiment among the Pakistani public” If only the Pakistanis (and the Afghans, and the Yemenis) would learn to stop worrying and love the drone! Our poor, misunderstood drones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","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":[95],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-drones","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1123,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/01\/drones-for-human-rights\/","url_meta":{"origin":1702,"position":0},"title":"Drones for Human Rights","author":"aslam","date":"February 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - 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