{"id":12504,"date":"2011-10-26T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T20:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=12504"},"modified":"2011-10-26T12:31:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T20:31:43","slug":"a-journalists-account-of-what-happened-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/a-journalists-account-of-what-happened-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"A Journalist&#8217;s Account of What Happened in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RFvpfkUyBqE&amp;feature=player_detailpage\">Journalist Lizzy Phelan on Her Experience in Libya\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regular readers of Antiwar.com will not be surprised by Ms. Phelan&#8217;s account of what she saw in Libya. Just like the war in Iraq, the bombing of Libya was based on a whole lot of nonsense: inflated death tolls and exaggerated opposition against Gaddafi (although the opposition against him should not be marginalized). As US rhetoric towards Iran reaches a fever pitch similar to that in the run up to the war in Iraq, it&#8217;s truly worth pondering just how many times the American people will tolerate being lied to or bullied into war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Lizzy Phelan on Her Experience in Libya\u00a0 Regular readers of Antiwar.com will not be surprised by Ms. Phelan&#8217;s account of what she saw in Libya. Just like the war in Iraq, the bombing of Libya was based on a whole lot of nonsense: inflated death tolls and exaggerated opposition against Gaddafi (although the opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12509,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions\/12509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12504"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}