{"id":34025,"date":"2017-09-29T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34025"},"modified":"2017-09-19T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:56:33","slug":"qotd-maxims-31-40-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/qotd-maxims-31-40-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Maxims 31-40 of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>31. Only cheaters prosper.<br \/>\n32. Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water.<br \/>\n33. If you\u2019re leaving tracks, you\u2019re being followed.<br \/>\n34. If you\u2019re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun.<br \/>\n35. That which does not kill you has made a tactical error.<br \/>\n36. When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.<br \/>\n37. There is no \u2018overkill.\u2019 There is only \u2018open fire\u2019 and \u2018I need to reload.\u2019<br \/>\n38. Just because it\u2019s easy for you doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t be hard on your clients.<br \/>\n39. There is a difference between spare parts and extra [parts].<br \/>\n40. Not all good news is enemy action.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Tayler, quoted by Rodney M. Bliss in <a href=\"http:\/\/rodneymbliss.com\/2015\/12\/18\/new-maxims-revealed-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New Maxims Revealed For The First Time&#8221;, <em>Rodney M. Bliss<\/em><\/a>, 2015-12-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31. Only cheaters prosper. 32. Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water. 33. If you\u2019re leaving tracks, you\u2019re being followed. 34. If you\u2019re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun. 35. That which does not kill you has made a tactical error. 36. When the going gets tough, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,5,41],"tags":[1048,85],"class_list":["post-34025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-military","category-quotations","tag-schlockmercenary","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8QN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34026,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34025\/revisions\/34026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}