{"id":38516,"date":"2013-06-02T23:05:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T23:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_one_mans_defiance_inspires_a_region_to_stand_up_to_the_taliban\/"},"modified":"2013-06-02T23:05:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T23:05:55","slug":"la_times_one_mans_defiance_inspires_a_region_to_stand_up_to_the_taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38516","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) One man&#39;s defiance inspires a region to stand up to the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The uprising began in early February with a Taliban commander&#8217;s knock on the door of Hajji Abdul Wudood.<\/p>\n<p>The militant leader demanded that Wudood, a stout, weathered man of 60, surrender one of his eight sons, who was accused of spying on the Taliban for the Afghan government.<\/p>\n<p>What Wudood did next triggered a revolt against the Taliban that has spread to a dozen villages in a region that has been among the nation&#8217;s most formidable Taliban strongholds.<\/p>\n<p>Fed up with beheadings and homemade bombs that killed 60 people in two villages the previous year, Wudood refused to hand over 25-year-old Abdul Hanan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-afghanistan-uprising-20130602,0,877331.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The uprising began in early February with a Taliban commander&#8217;s knock on the door of Hajji Abdul Wudood. The militant leader demanded that Wudood, a stout, weathered man of 60, surrender one of his eight sons, who was accused of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38516\">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":[40,50,503,201,151,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-politics-in-general","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38516","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=38516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}