{"id":268,"date":"2003-04-15T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/04\/the_aftermath_o\/"},"modified":"2003-04-15T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T15:30:10","slug":"the_aftermath_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/the_aftermath_o\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aftermath of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I simply don&#8217;t understand why it&#8217;s happening. I can understand a good deal of the looting of public buildings, palaces and the like. By why was the National Museum destroyed.<br \/>\nEvery so often I think about the works that were lost for all time in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bede.org.uk\/library.htm\">Library of Alexandria<\/a>. Somehow the destruction of libraries and museums seems worse that the destruction of anything else. Buildings can be rebuilt, but knowledge is lost forever.<br \/>\nRobert Fisk in today&#8217;s Independent details the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/argument.independent.co.uk\/commentators\/story.jsp?story=397350\">devastation<\/a> to take place in Bagdhad, and the lack of resolve on the Americans&#8217; part to do anything about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I simply don&#8217;t understand why it&#8217;s happening. I can understand a good deal of the looting of public buildings, palaces and the like. By why was the National Museum destroyed. Every so often I think about the works that were lost for all time in Library of Alexandria. Somehow the destruction of libraries and museums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}