{"id":183369,"date":"2014-12-14T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/14\/sydney-seriously\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T03:13:00","slug":"sydney-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/14\/sydney-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney?  Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say that if terrorists were going to make an attack, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-30474494\">Sydney, Australia would be the last place that I would expect<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">At least one gunman is holding staff and customers hostage at a cafe in the Australian city of Sydney.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hundreds of armed police have sealed off the normally busy Martin Place in the central business district.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Earlier, at least three people were seen inside the Lindt cafe with their hands up against a window, and holding up a black flag with Arabic writing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described the &#8220;terrifying&#8221; incident as &#8220;deeply concerning&#8221;.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is not yet confirmed as a terrorist attack, though the fact that the <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/214395-australia-sydney-hostages-isis\/\">hostage takers appeared to have displayed the black Jihadi flag<\/a> would imply that this is likely.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just plain weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say that if terrorists were going to make an attack, Sydney, Australia would be the last place that I would expect: At least one gunman is holding staff and customers hostage at a cafe in the Australian city of Sydney.Hundreds of armed police have sealed off the normally busy Martin Place in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1112,1052,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-and-new-zealand","category-crimes","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}