{"id":581,"date":"2006-10-08T01:43:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/10\/a-letter-from-iraq\/"},"modified":"2006-10-08T01:43:46","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T01:43:46","slug":"a-letter-from-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/10\/08\/a-letter-from-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"A letter from Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself frustrated at how desensitized I&#8217;ve become towards the war in Iraq. The news is saturated with depressing stories day after day. Sometimes, I hear how many people have died in an explosion and think &#8220;That&#8217;s not too bad.&#8221;, and am sad at how these people have become numbers, as impersonal as the stock prices scrolling along the bottom of CNN.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m writing this post after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/printout\/0,8816,1543658,00.html\">this letter<\/a> from Time.com. It&#8217;s a good thing to personalize the war every once in a while, because it&#8217;s way too easy to just tune out the noise all together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself frustrated at how desensitized I&#8217;ve become towards the war in Iraq. The news is saturated with depressing stories day after day. Sometimes, I hear how many people have died in an explosion and think &#8220;That&#8217;s not too bad.&#8221;, and am sad at how these people have become numbers, as impersonal as the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/10\/08\/a-letter-from-iraq\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}