{"id":46927,"date":"2023-03-18T19:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T19:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=46927"},"modified":"2023-03-18T19:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T19:44:41","slug":"i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=46927","title":{"rendered":"I Am an Iraqi American. The Iraq War Still Chills Me to the Bone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, waiting for a plane at Newark Airport, I stopped for coffee at a restaurant where the iPad menus doubled as small billboards. This ad from Unicef flashed by and caught my eye: \u201cThe children of Ukraine urgently need help.\u201dIndeed they do. War and children don\u2019t go together.Iraq was where I first saw what a malnourished wartime baby\u2019s face looks like&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/171201\/iraq-war-20th-anniversary-still-chills-bone\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, waiting for a plane at Newark Airport, I stopped for coffee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-scaled.jpeg",2560,1706,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-1536x1024.jpeg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-2048x1365.jpeg",2048,1365,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/46927-i-am-an-iraqi-american-the-iraq-war-still-chills-me-to-the-bone-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}