{"id":25720,"date":"2011-04-19T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_misrata_libyas_city_under_siege\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T15:40:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:40:21","slug":"bbc_misrata_libyas_city_under_siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25720","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Misrata: Libya&#39;s city under siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While parts of Libya&#8217;s northern coast have been changing hands from day to day, the conflict in Misrata has turned into a lethal stand-off.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks of heavy bombardments by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have failed to break the deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>This is explained partly by the size of Misrata, Libya&#8217;s third largest city.<\/p>\n<p>It is the only significant western rebel holdout, and is strategically important because of its deep-sea port, so rebels have fought hard to defend it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-13118724\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While parts of Libya&#8217;s northern coast have been changing hands from day to day, the conflict in Misrata has turned into a lethal stand-off. Weeks of heavy bombardments by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have failed to break the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25720\">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":[40,50,202,143,144,531,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-libya","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25720","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=25720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}