{"id":192,"date":"2004-03-11T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=192"},"modified":"2004-03-11T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T23:16:15","slug":"the-latest-salvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"The latest salvo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now terrorists of some stripe or other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.command-post.org\/nk\/2_archives\/010834.html\">have killed hundreds<\/a> and wounded over a thousand in Madrid.  A former colleague of mine lives in Madrid, so although it&#8217;s highly unlikely she would have been involved, it&#8217;s still sobering.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still not known if the attack was the work of the ETA or Islamists.  However, the ETA has denied responsibility, and some group associated with Al-Qa&#8217;ida has not only claimed responsibility for the attack on Spain, but threatened a new attack on America.  (People are saying that it&#8217;s not the usual ETA modus operandi &#8212; they usually target military or police, and rarely civilians, and have always called in a warning before a strike).<\/p>\n<p>As someone once said, if your enemies see things in black and white, pay attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now terrorists of some stripe or other have killed hundreds and wounded over a thousand in Madrid. A former colleague of mine lives in Madrid, so although it&#8217;s highly unlikely she would have been involved, it&#8217;s still sobering. It&#8217;s still not known if the attack was the work of the ETA or Islamists. However, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The latest salvo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}