{"id":575,"date":"2004-03-15T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T04:38:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-15T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T04:38:07","slug":"who-you-calling-ottoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/15\/who-you-calling-ottoman\/","title":{"rendered":"Who You Calling Ottoman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading my last <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P567_0_1_0>post<\/a>, alert reader Jake Avery sent me the following correction re <a href=http:\/\/www.spectator.org\/dsp_article.asp?art_id=6286>Lawrence Henry&#8217;s <i>American Spectator<\/i> piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Not only is this over-the-top hysterical, it&#8217;s factually wrong.  The Spanish<br \/>\nconquered the Moorish kingdom of Granada in 1492, which was in no way a part of<br \/>\nthe Ottoman Empire (<a href=http:\/\/www.ac.wwu.edu\/~helfgott\/maps-ottoman-empire.htm>the Ottomans never expanded west of present-day Algeria, and<br \/>\nthat wasn&#8217;t until the early 1500s<\/a>.)  Of course, all those towel heads probably<br \/>\nlook alike to Henry.  Besides it&#8217;s time to &#8220;go kill those people.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Jake. Wish I&#8217;d caught that&#8211;as do <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P291_0_1_0_C>my buddies<\/a> over at the <i>American Spectator<\/i>, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading my last post, alert reader Jake Avery sent me the following correction re Lawrence Henry&#8217;s American Spectator piece: Not only is this over-the-top hysterical, it&#8217;s factually wrong. The Spanish conquered the Moorish kingdom of Granada in 1492, which was in no way a part of the Ottoman Empire (the Ottomans never expanded west [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/575","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}