{"id":334,"date":"2008-06-01T09:34:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T16:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2008-06-01T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T16:34:54","slug":"an-iraq-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/an-iraq-story\/","title":{"rendered":"An Iraq Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years and one month after the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/\" title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2003_invasion_of_Iraq\">liberation<\/a>&#8216; of Iraq, the Guardian reports on the end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/jun\/01\/iraq\">sad story of Rand and Leila Hussein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I have no doubt that many Iraqis find &#8216;honour killing&#8217; repugnant, and it is dangerous to generalise these events to an entire country, its clear that Iraq has a long way to go. I can&#8217;t believe this is even close to being an isolated case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years and one month after the &#8216;liberation&#8216; of Iraq, the Guardian reports on the end of the sad story of Rand and Leila Hussein. While I have no doubt that many Iraqis find &#8216;honour killing&#8217; repugnant, and it is dangerous to generalise these events to an entire country, its clear that Iraq has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/an-iraq-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Iraq Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}