{"id":2525,"date":"2006-08-19T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2006-08-19T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T15:22:00","slug":"television-with-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/08\/19\/11\/22\/television-with-pity\/","title":{"rendered":"Television With Pity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/18\/AR2006081801441.html\">Akhund said he had spent the past year in the border regions of Pakistan, where he described senior Taliban figures as operating freely and working with Pakistani intelligence agencies. He said he and his men were given money and weapons and sent into Afghanistan to fight, sometimes acting as guides for Pakistani suicide bombers &#8230; &#8220;The Taliban were good Muslims, and when they were here our business was good,&#8221; said Abdul Ahad, 50, who was selling grapes on the sidewalk. &#8220;Since the infidels came to power, what have we gotten besides television? What we need is security and an improved religion so we can build our society according to Islam&#8221;.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akhund said he had spent the past year in the border regions of Pakistan, where he described senior Taliban figures as operating freely and working with Pakistani intelligence agencies. He said he and his&#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-2525","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\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}