{"id":644,"date":"2004-03-27T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-28T00:40:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-27T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2004-03-28T00:40:56","slug":"paging-pollyanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/27\/paging-pollyanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Paging Pollyanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hod\/nr032604.shtml>Nir Rosen describes the remarkable progress U.S. social workers are making in Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>In the beginning of the occupation I entered a taxi and asked the driver what he thought of the events in Iraq. He looked away and started crying. I asked him if somebody in his family had died. &#8220;We all died,&#8221; he told me. Now taxi drivers talk only of the latest explosion and how much they hate the Americans and want to kill them. One taxi driver drove by a mosque and saw Americans in the courtyard. &#8220;Look what they&#8217;re doing!&#8221; he shouted hysterically. &#8220;They even enter inside mosques! They are dirty Jews, I swear if I had an RPG now I would shoot them!&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>Now tell me which of the two arguments from <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P626_0_1_0>this earlier post<\/a> sounds more plausible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nir Rosen describes the remarkable progress U.S. social workers are making in Iraq: In the beginning of the occupation I entered a taxi and asked the driver what he thought of the events in Iraq. He looked away and started crying. I asked him if somebody in his family had died. &#8220;We all died,&#8221; he [&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-644","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\/644","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=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}