{"id":36,"date":"2001-09-22T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-22T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=36"},"modified":"2001-09-22T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-22T20:35:00","slug":"afghan-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/09\/22\/16\/35\/afghan-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If I stopped and gave money to a child, others came running. I slipped one boy five thousand afghanis\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdabout ten cents\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdand when I looked back in the rearview mirror it seemed that the other boys were practically tearing him to pieces. On a road bend where no other beggar could see, I gave a twenty-dollar bill to a boy who stood beside the carapace of a Soviet armored personnel carrier, and he took it and held it as if he were dreaming.”<\/p>\n

William Vollman’s Letter From Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If I stopped and gave money to a child, others came running. I slipped one boy five thousand afghanis\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdabout ten cents\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdand when I looked back in the rearview mirror it seemed that the other...<\/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-36","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\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}