{"id":5774,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-causes-of-a-tragic-blunder\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:07","slug":"the-causes-of-a-tragic-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-causes-of-a-tragic-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Causes of A Tragic Blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 3, 1988, an American warship shot down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 civilians.  What caused this tragic blunder?  According to the article, the cause was a deadly combination of panicked crewmen, a brand-new state-of-the-art Aegis weapons&#8217; system that no one on the ship really understood, and an overeager &#8220;trigger-happy&#8221; captain just spoiling for a fight.  And then, to make matters worse, the Navy tried to cover-up and justify its mistake and even awarded ribbons to the men of the cruiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 3, 1988, an American warship shot down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 civilians. What caused this tragic blunder? According to the article, the cause was a deadly combination of panicked crewmen, a brand-new state-of-the-art Aegis weapons&#8217; system that no one on the ship really understood, and an overeager &#8220;trigger-happy&#8221; captain just spoiling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3229,520,3228,442],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}