{"id":195169,"date":"2008-07-25T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/25\/finally-25\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T22:18:00","slug":"finally-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/25\/finally-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/25\/world\/middleeast\/25visa.html?partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">State Department is increasing the number of visas available to Iraqi workers who are not at risk of life and limb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a problem for over 5 years, and they are <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">finally<\/span> addressing it.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that someone ran the numbers, and determined that enough of them had fled to <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">other<\/span> countries, or had been killed, that they would not have too much demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department is increasing the number of visas available to Iraqi workers who are not at risk of life and limb. This has been a problem for over 5 years, and they are finally addressing it. My guess is that someone ran the numbers, and determined that enough of them had fled to other &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195169"}],"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=195169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}