{"id":21158,"date":"2010-08-08T22:38:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_cardinal_attacks_us_over_lockerbie_bomber_reaction\/"},"modified":"2010-08-08T22:38:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T22:38:44","slug":"bbc_cardinal_attacks_us_over_lockerbie_bomber_reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21158","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Cardinal attacks US over Lockerbie bomber reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has attacked the US over the release of the Lockerbie bomber.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Keith O&#8217;Brien said the Scottish government was right to free Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi last year on compassionate grounds.<\/p>\n<p>US lawmakers want Scots politicians to explain their decision to a committee, but the cardinal said ministers should not go &#8220;crawling like lapdogs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-10905562\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has attacked the US over the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Cardinal Keith O&#8217;Brien said the Scottish government was right to free Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi last year on compassionate grounds. US<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21158\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,209,149,199,144,114,531,154,108,364,326,148,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-libya","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-scotland","category-terrorism","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158","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=21158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}