{"id":24532,"date":"2014-11-11T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=24532"},"modified":"2014-11-14T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:12:03","slug":"video-syrian-boy-braves-sniper-fire-to-save-girl-trapped-by-barrage-of-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/video-syrian-boy-braves-sniper-fire-to-save-girl-trapped-by-barrage-of-bullets\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was Fake: Syrian Boy Braves Sniper Fire to Save Girl Trapped by Barrage of Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> It was too good to be true.   A Norwegian director has come forward and the story of how the video was promoted have come out:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-trending-30057401\">it was staged and shot in Malta.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The original post follows:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The video shows the youngster, about 8 years old, weave his way down a dusty street, dodging bullets to reach a terrified girl cowering behind a car. The boy even plays dead at one point to deceive the sharpshooters, who miss hitting both children as they appear to safely run off.<\/p>\n<p>The video has not been authenticated, and it is puzzling as to who took it, but it does appear authentic.  Activists say it&#8217;s real, some critics say it is faked.   It doesn&#8217;t seem fake to me.  Either way, it is worth watching.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mgwO6oni-wY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: It was too good to be true. A Norwegian director has come forward and the story of how the video was promoted have come out: it was staged and shot in Malta. The original post follows: The video shows the youngster, about 8 years old, weave his way down a dusty street, dodging bullets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":0,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24532","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":"","_social_image_id":false,"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24547,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532\/revisions\/24547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24532"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}