{"id":1601,"date":"2003-06-24T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2003-06-24T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-24T17:32:00","slug":"up-close-and-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/06\/24\/13\/32\/up-close-and-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Close And Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/allnews\/content_objectid=13087653_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-US%2DTROOPS%2DADMIT%2DSHOOTING%2DIRAQI%2DCIVILIANS-name_page.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Specialist Corporal Michael Richardson added: &#8220;There was no dilemma when it came to shooting people who were not in uniform, I just pulled the trigger. &#8220;It was up close and personal the whole time, there wasn&#8217;t a big distance. If they were there, they were enemy, whether in uniform or not. Some were, some weren&#8217;t.&#8221; &#8230; anything there, you shoot again. You didn&#8217;t want any prisoners of war. You hate them so bad while you&#8217;re fighting, and you&#8217;re so terrified, you can&#8217;t really convey the feeling, but you don&#8217;t want them to live.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specialist Corporal Michael Richardson added: &#8220;There was no dilemma when it came to shooting people who were not in uniform, I just pulled the trigger. &#8220;It was up close and personal the whole time,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}