{"id":145,"date":"2005-01-19T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T23:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2008-11-27T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T20:35:51","slug":"one-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"One Photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-863\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-863\" title=\"kim1024x695\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kim1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"Evil then\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evil then<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>In 1972, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peace.ca\/kimstory.htm\" target=\"_blank\">one photograph<\/a> played a key role in turning Americans against the war in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>And now there&#8217;s this, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2005\/01\/19\/international\/19iraq.ready.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tal Afar, Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-865\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-865\" title=\"iraqi_girl\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/iraqi_girl.gif\" alt=\"Evil now\" width=\"358\" height=\"234\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evil now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>Our soldiers shot this girl&#8217;s family at a\u00a0traffic checkpoint.\u00a0 She was the only survivor.\u00a0 Did our troops intend to do evil?\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 But evil was done, and this photograph captures the horrifying aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>This evil was done in our name.<\/p>\n<p>What the fuck is wrong with us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1972, one photograph played a key role in turning Americans against the war in Vietnam. And now there&#8217;s this, from Tal Afar, Iraq: Our soldiers shot this girl&#8217;s family at a\u00a0traffic checkpoint.\u00a0 She was the only survivor.\u00a0 Did our troops intend to do evil?\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 But evil was done, and this photograph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-media","category-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}