{"id":14875,"date":"2009-09-09T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/big_u-s-_bases_are_part_of_iraq_but_a_world_apart\/"},"modified":"2009-09-09T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:00:02","slug":"big_u-s-_bases_are_part_of_iraq_but_a_world_apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14875","title":{"rendered":"Big U.S. Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes the masseuse, Mila from Kyrgyzstan, an hour to commute to work by bus on this sprawling American base. Her massage parlor is one of three on the base\u2019s 6,300 acres, and sits next to a Subway sandwich shop in a trailer, surrounded by blast walls, sand and rock.<\/p>\n<p>At the Subway, workers from India and Bangladesh make sandwiches for American soldiers looking for a taste of home. When the sandwich makers\u2019 shifts end, the journey home takes them past a power plant, an ice-making plant, a sewage treatment center, a hospital and dozens of other facilities one would expect to find in a small city.<\/p>\n<p>And in more than six years, that is what Americans have created here: cities in the sand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/09\/world\/middleeast\/09bases.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes the masseuse, Mila from Kyrgyzstan, an hour to commute to work by bus on this sprawling American base. Her massage parlor is one of three on the base\u2019s 6,300 acres, and sits next to a Subway sandwich shop<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14875\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,141,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-iraq-war","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}