{"id":653,"date":"2004-11-27T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2004-11-27T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/11\/27\/wastrels\/"},"modified":"2004-11-27T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2004-11-27T14:33:18","slug":"wastrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/11\/27\/wastrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Wastrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1601'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Wastrel<\/i> &#8212; great-sounding word, isn&#8217;t it?  <a href=\"http:\/\/orangecow.org\/pythonet\/sketches\/woodytin.htm\">Woody, not tinny<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a definition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>wastrel<\/b><i>  n : someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: waster]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chet Richards reviews Winslow Wheeler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.net\/dni_reviews\/wastrels_of_defense.htm\">The Wastrels of Defense; How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security<\/a> (US Naval Institute Press,  2004) for <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.net\/\">Defense and National Interest<\/a>.  (Don&#8217;t ask how I came across that particular site, just read the review &#8212; or the book.)<\/p>\n<p>Alarming stuff.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wastrel &#8212; great-sounding word, isn&#8217;t it? Woody, not tinny. Here&#8217;s a definition: wastrel n : someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: waster] Chet Richards reviews Winslow Wheeler&#8217;s The Wastrels of Defense; How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security (US Naval Institute Press, 2004) for Defense and National Interest. (Don&#8217;t ask how I came across that particular site, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}