{"id":218,"date":"2008-02-23T00:42:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/2008\/02\/23\/baghdad-basra-train-helps-stitch-up-iraqs-wounds\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:45:39","slug":"baghdad-basra-train-helps-stitch-up-iraqs-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/baghdad-basra-train-helps-stitch-up-iraqs-wounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad-Basra train helps stitch up Iraq&#8217;s wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report from Reuters about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/gc05\/idUSL1957555020080221\">Baghdad &#8211; Basra service<\/a>. Includes some pics, one showing spectacular exhaust from one of the Chinese-built locos.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;When the train goes by, people feel safe and feel that things are going back to how they were,&#8221; said Colonel Ali al-Tamimi, the railway company&#8217;s head of security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The railways are for all of us &#8230; Do you think passengers declare their sect when they get on the train?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from Reuters about the Baghdad &#8211; Basra service. Includes some pics, one showing spectacular exhaust from one of the Chinese-built locos. &#8220;When the train goes by, people feel safe and feel that things are going back to how they were,&#8221; said Colonel Ali al-Tamimi, the railway company&#8217;s head of security. &#8220;The railways are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}