{"id":67,"date":"2004-09-04T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T13:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/04\/russian-aftermath\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T13:47:17","slug":"russian-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/russian-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/04\/international\/europe\/04russia.html?hp\">Saturday update<\/a> &#8211; it gets worse&#8230; 322 bodies confirmed so far, including 155 children.<\/p>\n<p>That synonym for the free press, <a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/\">Pravda<\/a>, responds to the crisis in a typically Cold War manner, with headlines like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/accidents\/21\/96\/382\/14036_school.html\">School Stormed, Hostages Released<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and supposed<a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/mailbox\/22\/98\/386\/14037_hostage.html\"> readers&#8217; letters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Clearly it was for the love of the children that the Russian troops risked their own lives in this rescue operation. I believe the outcome would have been worse had nothing been done or attempts to appease the terrorists had continued. I hope the Russian people stand behind their government and not let the horrible actions of others divide them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For fuck&#8217;s sake&#8230; The delightful thing is, most of these letters are from Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday update &#8211; it gets worse&#8230; 322 bodies confirmed so far, including 155 children. That synonym for the free press, Pravda, responds to the crisis in a typically Cold War manner, with headlines like: School Stormed, Hostages Released and supposed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/russian-aftermath\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-former-ussr","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}