{"id":2460,"date":"2006-06-25T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2006-06-25T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T15:27:00","slug":"50000-and-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/06\/25\/11\/27\/50000-and-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 And Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-deathtoll25jun25,1,1267380.story?page=1&#038;coll=la-headlines-world\">At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion &#8230; a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration &#8230; Proportionately, it is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed nationwide in the last three years.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Using this scaling that makes the equivalent of roughly 3,500 killed each week, week after week, since 2003. That&#8217;s a vaguely comparable death toll to the jetliner attacks of September 11th, 2001, on the United States. Except for the Iraqis it&#8217;s now a weekly occurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion &#8230; a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration &#8230; Proportionately, it is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","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\/2460","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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}