{"id":677,"date":"2008-08-25T05:17:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purplemass.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2008-08-28T05:20:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T11:20:03","slug":"sami-el-haj-al-jazeera-journalist-tells-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Sami El Haj, Al Jazeera journalist, tells his story"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Standing straight and tall, an impressive and deeply introspective man, Sami El Haj walks with a limp and the help of a walking stick. Neither laughter nor smiles light up the refined face of this man, old before his time. A deep sadness pervades him. He was 32 years old when, in December 2001, his life, like that of tens of thousands of other Muslims, became a horrific nightmare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article157846.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story<\/a> &#8211; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\" target=\"_blank\">voltairenet.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing straight and tall, an impressive and deeply introspective man, Sami El Haj walks with a limp and the help of a walking stick. Neither laughter nor smiles light up the refined face of this man, old before his time. A deep sadness pervades him. He was 32 years old when, in December 2001, his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politiks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}