{"id":512,"date":"2007-07-03T07:38:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/bless-the-beast"},"modified":"2007-07-03T07:38:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T11:38:59","slug":"bless-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Bless the Beasts and the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Michaelyon10\" title=\"Photograph by Michael Yon\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/07\/03\/michaelyon10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Yon describes a village on the outskirts of Baqubah where this photograph was one of the few things left to tell the tale of life before Al Qaeda arrived. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/wp\/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm\">Not for the faint of heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael has an <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelyon-online.com\/wp\/update-on-bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm\">update <\/a>to this post in which he makes an extremely generous offer to the media outlets who are busily looking elsewhere for news to report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Yon describes a village on the outskirts of Baqubah where this photograph was one of the few things left to tell the tale of life before Al Qaeda arrived. Not for the faint of heart. Michael has an update &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1779],"tags":[1418,1419,1346,1420,40],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-8g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}