{"id":1199,"date":"2007-09-11T11:11:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/09\/11\/media-check-for-week-of-2007-09-10\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T16:11:30","slug":"media-check-for-week-of-2007-09-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/09\/11\/media-check-for-week-of-2007-09-10\/","title":{"rendered":"media check for week of 2007-09-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to Morning Edition today and heard a really interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=14316796\">story about a man in Iraq meeting a friend from Texas via the Internet<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The Texan loves the Bush administration and thinks the war in Iraq was justified and a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0 The Iraqi man agrees that extremists in Iraq are responsible for the violence and other problems in the country, but feels the US isn&#8217;t helping by being in Iraq.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a crazy example of a cross-cultural dialog.\u00c2\u00a0 What I find difficult to understand is the Texan&#8217;s unwillingness to accept the Iraqi&#8217;s criticism of the US occupation, even though the Iraqi seems to have a better perspective.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes me want to be more careful at watching out for my own ridiculous belief at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to Morning Edition today and heard a really interesting story about a man in Iraq meeting a friend from Texas via the Internet.\u00c2\u00a0 The Texan loves the Bush administration and thinks the war in Iraq was justified and a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0 The Iraqi man agrees that extremists in Iraq are responsible for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/09\/11\/media-check-for-week-of-2007-09-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">media check for week of 2007-09-10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,104,256,30],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-internet","tag-iraq","tag-media","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-jl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}