{"id":19812,"date":"2009-11-30T03:31:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=19812"},"modified":"2009-11-30T03:31:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T08:31:11","slug":"cheers-to-cnn-for-covering-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/cheers-to-cnn-for-covering-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheers to CNN for covering this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/11\/30\/keeper.of.death\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>As a hobby, he counts the war dead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stone Mountain, Georgia (CNN) &#8212; Fall leaves blanket Michael White&#8217;s deck at his suburban Atlanta, Georgia, home. In the cluttered attic study, the software engineer slouches over his Hewlett-Packard laptop.<\/p>\n<p>A full-length floor lamp stands on top of his desk &#8212; the overhead light went out a while back. Next to him is his 1960s Stratocaster, a reminder of the rock-star career that never blossomed.<\/p>\n<p>Jillian, his Vivaldi-loving, violin-playing 10-year-old, has gone off to school. Wife Ashley is at work. The house is quiet except for the occasional mew from Izzy, the atypically friendly Tonkinese cat.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, from the humdrum of this ordinary subdivision home comes an arresting daily statement.<\/p>\n<p>For six years, White has faithfully produced a number that is critical to shaping the legacy of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: the death toll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/11\/30\/keeper.of.death\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Full story here.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a hobby, he counts the war dead Stone Mountain, Georgia (CNN) &#8212; Fall leaves blanket Michael White&#8217;s deck at his suburban Atlanta, Georgia, home. In the cluttered attic study, the software engineer slouches over his Hewlett-Packard laptop. A full-length floor lamp stands on top of his desk &#8212; the overhead light went out a &#8230; <a title=\"Cheers to CNN for covering this\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/cheers-to-cnn-for-covering-this\/\" aria-label=\"More on Cheers to CNN for covering this\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}