{"id":72376,"date":"2017-09-06T22:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T05:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/opinion-buck-sexton-the-hill"},"modified":"2017-09-06T22:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T05:42:34","slug":"opinion-buck-sexton-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/opinion-buck-sexton-the-hill","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: ~ Buck Sexton, The Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opinion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Korea claims it is now part of the thermonuclear club, after successfully testing on Sunday a miniaturized hydrogen bomb capable of fitting on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssuming the reports are true, the North\u2019s most recent nuclear detonation wasn\u2019t just another test on a growing list of Kim Jong Un\u2019s provocations. It was a major escalation in the nuclear face-off on the Korean peninsula. The world\u2019s most belligerent rogue state going from fission to fusion weapons is ominous to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/foreign-policy\/349208-north-korea-may-actually-want-war\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/foreign-policy\/349208-...y-want-war<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNorth Korea claims it is now part of the thermonuclear club, after successfully testing on Sunday a miniaturized hydrogen bomb capable of fitting on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).\u201d \u201cAssuming the reports are true, the North\u2019s most recent nuclear detonation wasn\u2019t just another test on a growing list of Kim Jong Un\u2019s provocations. It was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}