{"id":142,"date":"2004-02-20T10:35:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T15:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=142"},"modified":"2005-12-30T07:54:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T12:54:19","slug":"on-the-ground-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/on-the-ground-in-iran","title":{"rendered":"On the ground in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

My pseudonymous buddy in Iran now has a blog! Check out the Brooding Persian<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My pseudonymous buddy in Iran now has a blog! Check out the Brooding Persian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-2i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":760,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/iran","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":0},"title":"Iran","author":"Gil","date":"December 12, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"My (occasionally long-winded) buddy The Brooding Persian has a good post about the latest rant from Iran's president: What we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve got now\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dand I mean the Iranian nation, our neighbours and the broader global community\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dwith this witches brew of nativist authoritarianism, Shi\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ia theology, Mr. Huntington\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s creative profundities and a bit of\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/iran#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":301,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/back-2","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":1},"title":"Back!","author":"Gil","date":"July 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Not exactly rested and ready, but at least the big issue is wrapped, in time for my family's visit for the next 7-10 days!To get re-started, here's a post by The Brooding Persian, about the 4th of July in Iran.In the Persian calendar, today is 18 Tir, which has become\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":913,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-cant-fire-me-i-quit","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":2},"title":"You can’t fire me, I quit!","author":"Gil","date":"April 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Fawaz Turki explains \"How To Lose Your Job at a Saudi Newspaper\" What mattered was that I had committed one of the three cardinal sins an Arab journalist must avoid when working for the Arab press: I criticized the government. 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Let's give a big VM welcome to Isis Arianna K., who joined this world on Friday!","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-new-reader#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1126,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-grateful-persian","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":5},"title":"The Grateful Persian","author":"Gil","date":"September 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"My other point of pride is how quickly and how well some of my dear readers (and great friends) offered up resources to help out The Brooding Persian. I forwarded everyone's messages to him, and he was enormously grateful. 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