{"id":2606,"date":"2006-10-29T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2006-10-29T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T16:34:00","slug":"a-city-of-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/10\/29\/12\/34\/a-city-of-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"A City Of Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/27\/AR2006102701487.html\">The commotion in the streets &#8212; goods spilling across sidewalks, traffic snarled under a searing sun &#8212; once prompted the uninitiated to conclude that Baghdad was reviving. Of course, they were seeing the city through a windshield, the often angry voices on the streets inaudible. Today, with traffic dwindling, stores shuttered and streets empty by nightfall, that conceit no longer holds &#8230; &#8220;If they brought the Israelis, the Jews, and they ruled Iraq, it would be better,&#8221; said Karima, her face framed by a black veil. Sunlight bathed the room; electricity, as usual, was cut off. &#8220;It would be a million times better than a Sunni, a million times better than a Shiite.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commotion in the streets &#8212; goods spilling across sidewalks, traffic snarled under a searing sun &#8212; once prompted the uninitiated to conclude that Baghdad was reviving. Of course, they were seeing the city&#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-2606","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\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}