{"id":187292,"date":"2013-04-16T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/16\/baghdad-burning-is-back\/"},"modified":"2013-04-16T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:04:00","slug":"baghdad-burning-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/16\/baghdad-burning-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad Burning is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riverbend, who rose to notice as a blogger living in Baghdad (she documented just how corrupt and incompetent the invasion and administration were), has <a href=\"http:\/\/riverbendblog.blogspot.com\/2013_04_01_archive.html#3554538807908354245\">made her first blog post in over 5 years<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Finally, after all is said and done, we shouldn&#8217;t forget what this was about &#8211; making America safer&#8230; And are you safer Americans? If you are, why is it that we hear more and more about attacks on your embassies and diplomats? Why is it that you are constantly warned to not go to this country or that one? Is it better now, ten years down the line? Do you feel safer, with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis out of the way (granted half of them were women and children, but children grow up, right?)?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And what happened to Riverbend and my family? I eventually moved from Syria. I moved before the heavy fighting, before it got ugly. That\u2019s how fortunate I was. I moved to another country nearby, stayed almost a year, and then made another move to a third Arab country with the hope that, this time, it\u2019ll stick until\u2026 Until when? Even the pessimists aren\u2019t sure anymore. When will things improve? When will be able to live normally? How long will it take?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to know that she is OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riverbend, who rose to notice as a blogger living in Baghdad (she documented just how corrupt and incompetent the invasion and administration were), has made her first blog post in over 5 years: Finally, after all is said and done, we shouldn&#8217;t forget what this was about &#8211; making America safer&#8230; And are you safer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1063,1118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-iraq","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187292"}],"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=187292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}