{"id":188,"date":"2004-10-18T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=188"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:40:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:40:37","slug":"google-saves-a-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Google Saves a Hostage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Baghdad, Chris Albritton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.back-to-iraq.com\/archives\/000827.php\" Target=\"Offsite\">describes<\/a> the kidnapping and release of his friend, John Martinkus, an Australian reporter.<br \/>\nMartinkus was released after persuading his captors that he was not American, a fact which they apparently confirmed by Googling him. (Wasn&#8217;t the accent enough, or do Australians and Americans sound alike to Iraqis?) Besides the Google angle, Albritton&#8217;s report provides a somewhat more chilling description of life for Westerners in Iraq than we usually get from the corporate media.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Baghdad, Chris Albritton describes the kidnapping and release of his friend, John Martinkus, an Australian reporter. Martinkus was released after persuading his captors that he was not American, a fact which they apparently confirmed by Googling him. (Wasn&#8217;t the accent enough, or do Australians and Americans sound alike to Iraqis?) Besides the Google angle,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=188\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Saves a Hostage?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-32","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}