{"id":68,"date":"2007-02-28T07:02:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T07:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=68"},"modified":"2007-02-28T07:02:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T07:02:14","slug":"iraq-war-continues-unimpeded-soccer-players-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/iraq-war-continues-unimpeded-soccer-players-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq war continues unimpeded, soccer players at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC recently ran an article on the Iraq war with a slightly different take than most.  The piece, which can be found &#8220;here&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6401839.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6401839.stm<\/a> , related two stories of youth soccer games interrupted by bomb attacks.  In both cases there were fatalities.  The whole situation reminds me of this anti-landmine advertisement put out by the UN.  It was never aired in the US for obvious reasons, but the message is an important one.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" align=\"center\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pXVCYQ1qix8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pXVCYQ1qix8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC recently ran an article on the Iraq war with a slightly different take than most.  The piece, which can be found &#8220;here&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6401839.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6401839.stm<\/a> , related two stories of youth soccer games interrupted by bomb attacks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[177,237],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-human-rights","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}