{"id":4219,"date":"2006-02-17T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/rumsfeld-on-ebay.html"},"modified":"2006-02-17T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T14:40:53","slug":"rumsfeld-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/rumsfeld-on-ebay.html","title":{"rendered":"Rumsfeld on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Rumsfeld says that terrorist groups have mastered getting media attention. The <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">US<\/place><\/country-region> government is well behind. Here are some direct quotes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060217\/pl_nm\/security_rumsfeld_dc\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">&quot;Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today&#8217;s media age, but &#8230; our country has not adapted,&quot; Rumsfeld said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For the most part, the <country-region w:st=\"on\">U.S.<\/country-region> government still functions as a &#8216;five and dime&#8217; store in an eBay world,&quot; Rumsfeld said, referring to old-fashioned <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">U.S.<\/place><\/country-region> retail stores and the online auction house respectively.<\/p>\n<p><\/i>The Bush administration has not been the most technically savvy and I am proud to see that someone who is a senior member of the administration is acknowledging how important technology is. The next step is a broadband policy that protects companies and users from predatory two-tier type Internet practices.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumsfeld says that terrorist groups have mastered getting media attention. The US government is well behind. Here are some direct quotes from the article: &quot;Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today&#8217;s media age, but &#8230; our country has not adapted,&quot; Rumsfeld said. &quot;For the most part, the U.S. government still functions as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[487,903],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}