{"id":71,"date":"2004-08-31T22:53:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T03:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=71"},"modified":"2004-08-31T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T03:53:32","slug":"this-is-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/08\/31\/this-is-disturbing\/","title":{"rendered":"This is disturbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/3616354.stm\">disturbing report<\/a> on the situation in Baghdad.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThey&#8217;re not an infallible news source, and I&#8217;d like to find some corroboration:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Meanwhile &#8211; virtually unreported by the international media &#8211; the kidnapping of Iraqis for ransom has become commonplace, particularly in Baghdad.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems like one of the Iraqi bloggers would have more on this&#8230; I&#8217;ll update this if I find something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a disturbing report on the situation in Baghdad.<\/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-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-19","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}