{"id":611,"date":"2007-11-26T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T20:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=611"},"modified":"2007-11-26T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T20:05:04","slug":"a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/thanks_and_praise-vers2.jpg' title=''><img src='https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/thanks_and_praise-vers2.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via the indefatigable <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/011413.php\">Instapundit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Yon emails: &#8220;I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John&#8217;s Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from &#8216;Chosen&#8217; Company 2-12 Cavalry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John&#8217;s, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope. The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. &#8216;Thank you, thank you,&#8217; the people were saying. One man said, &#8216;Thank you for peace.&#8217; Another man, a Muslim, said &#8216;All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the indefatigable Instapundit: Michael Yon emails: &#8220;I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John&#8217;s Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from &#8216;Chosen&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=611\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}