{"id":1921,"date":"2004-03-29T09:19:25","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T14:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/29\/1921.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:25","slug":"lockbox-new-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/29\/lockbox-new-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockbox, new style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Somehow, Your Humble Blogger missed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/29\/international\/worldspecial\/29PRES.html\">this news<\/a> about the American occupation shutting down a weekly newspaper in Baghdad.\n<p>Shutting down a newspaper.\n<p>Now, I understand that &#8216;newspaper&#8217; is a pretty tough term to apply to Al Hawza, which seems to specialize in lies about the coalition forces. I understand that there isn&#8217;t a real judiciary in place to prosecute so-called journalists who commit libel, and that irresponsible stuff in Al Hawza may well contribute to anti-American feeling, and therefore to anti-American (and anti-collaborationist) violence. I understand that the publishers are not actually romantic lone crusaders for truth, fighting censorship and propaganda, that these are bad guys we&#8217;re talking about here, and that in a successful state, they might well not be allowed to spout filth with impunity.\n<p>But American soldiers <I>shut down a newspaper<\/I>.\n<p>Nice publicity, Mr. Bremmer. That&#8217;ll win the hearts and minds. Nothing says &#8216;freedom&#8217; quite like a padlock on the door of a newspaper office.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, Your Humble Blogger missed this news about the American occupation shutting down a weekly newspaper in Baghdad. Shutting down a newspaper. Now, I understand that \u2018newspaper\u2019 is a pretty tough term to apply to Al Hawza, which seems to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nytimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16973,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/16973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}