{"id":97,"date":"2006-05-23T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melosangeles.wordpress.com\/2006\/05\/23\/which-is-the-real-iraq\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T07:35:00","slug":"which-is-the-real-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Which is the real Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">&#8222;A frustrating aspect of writing about Iraq since the invasion is that the    worse the situation becomes, the easier it is for Tony Blair or George Bush    to pretend it is improving. That is because as Baghdad and Iraq, aside from    the three Kurdish provinces, become the stalking ground for death squads and    assassins, it is impossible to report the collapse of security without being    killed doing so.&#8220;<\/span><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;\">Patrick Cockburn in Arbil<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Published: 23 May 2006 <\/span>     <\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2006 Independent News and Media Limited<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;A frustrating aspect of writing about Iraq since the invasion is that the worse the situation becomes, the easier it is for Tony Blair or George Bush to pretend it is improving. That is because as Baghdad and Iraq, aside from the three Kurdish provinces, become the stalking ground for death squads and assassins, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melosangeles.366.photos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}