{"id":3526,"date":"2007-01-05T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:42:10","slug":"good-news-iraq-is-no-worse-than-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/good-news-iraq-is-no-worse-than-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News: Iraq Is No Worse Than Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush administration and its Iraqi policy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2007\/01\/04\/MNGHANCEI81.DTL\" target=\"_new\">gets a boost<\/a> from an Oakland resident, who realizes that the violence in Iraq is no worse than that of a typical American city:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There have been three drive-by shootings in the past two months on my street,&#8221; said Miltiades Mandros, whose North Oakland neighborhood was the scene of a feud between rival drug dealers in 2006. &#8220;There are bullet holes all over my building from automatic weapons. It looks like it&#8217;s Baghdad or Beirut.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush administration and its Iraqi policy gets a boost from an Oakland resident, who realizes that the violence in Iraq is no worse than that of a typical American city: &#8220;There have been three drive-by shootings in the past two months on my street,&#8221; said Miltiades Mandros, whose North Oakland neighborhood was the scene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18340,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/18340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}