{"id":58,"date":"2004-08-18T02:04:07","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T07:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=58"},"modified":"2004-08-18T02:04:07","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T07:04:07","slug":"najaf-standoff-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/08\/18\/najaf-standoff-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Najaf standoff continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/3571798.stm\">reports<\/a> that the Iraqi delegation sent to end the standoff in Najaf has failed to accomplish its goal.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis is <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/srey0123\/iblog\/B448032312\/C2035488714\/E6449573\/index.html\">not entirely surprising<\/a>. I suppose the military will force the situation. It won&#8217;t be pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that the Iraqi delegation sent to end the standoff in Najaf has failed to accomplish its goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}