{"id":37204,"date":"2013-02-08T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_islamic_summit_urges_syria_dialogue_even_as_opposition_leaders_initiativ\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:00:26","slug":"ap_islamic_summit_urges_syria_dialogue_even_as_opposition_leaders_initiativ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37204","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Islamic summit urges Syria dialogue even as opposition leader\u2019s initiative for talks unravels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Leaders at an Islamic summit on Thursday urged a dialogue between the Syrian opposition and regime just as a new initiative for talks proposed by an anti-government leader appeared to be unraveling.<\/p>\n<p>Like previous diplomatic initiatives on Syria, opposition chief Mouaz al-Khatib\u2019s call for talks made less than a week ago appeared doomed to failure. And with troops and rebels clashing for a second day around Damascus, frustrated Syrians dismissed the calls for dialogue as empty talk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of this does not concern us,\u201d\u009d said Iyad, a Syrian fighter on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, which has witnessed heavy fighting in the last two days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/syrian-opposition-chief-demands-regime-release-women-prisoners-or-hell-scrap-offer-of-talks\/2013\/02\/07\/b61b4952-710b-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders at an Islamic summit on Thursday urged a dialogue between the Syrian opposition and regime just as a new initiative for talks proposed by an anti-government leader appeared to be unraveling. Like previous diplomatic initiatives on Syria, opposition chief<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37204\">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":[39,40,50,42,144,426,203,155,151,108,556,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-syria","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204","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=37204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}