{"id":204,"date":"2008-04-28T20:26:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T01:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/wp\/?p=204"},"modified":"2016-03-28T23:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T06:09:17","slug":"afghanistan-the-other-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/afghanistan-the-other-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8230;The Other Front&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Urmiaj.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/poppies.jpg\" alt=\"Opium Poppies\" title=\"Opium Poppies\" width=\"266\" height=\"159\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> They tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=assassinate%20Hamid%20Karzai\" target=\"_blank\">assassinate Hamid Karzai<\/a> yesterday. The Taliban is strong &amp; the poppy crop is bigger than ever. I remember in late 2001 they had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2001\/sep\/26\/afghanistan.features11\" target=\"_blank\">Mullah Omar<\/a> in the sights of a Predator drone&#8211;but didn&#8217;t fire. What&#8217;s the <i>real deal<\/i>?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the same old, same old there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They tried to assassinate Hamid Karzai yesterday. The Taliban is strong &amp; the poppy crop is bigger than ever. I remember in late 2001 they had Mullah Omar in the sights of a Predator drone&#8211;but didn&#8217;t fire. What&#8217;s the real deal? It&#8217;s the same old, same old there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4902,11974],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-hamid-karzai","tag-opium","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}