{"id":39752,"date":"2013-08-27T02:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T02:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_john_kerry_says_that_the_reported_use_of_chemical_weapons_in_syria\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T02:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T02:00:30","slug":"la_times_john_kerry_says_that_the_reported_use_of_chemical_weapons_in_syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39752","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) John Kerry says that the reported use of chemical weapons in Syria &#39;moral obscenity&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Monday condemned Syria\u2019s reported chemical weapons attacks as a \u201cmoral obscenity\u201d\u009d and declared that the Obama administration intends to move quickly to hold the Syrian government accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Citing \u201cundeniable\u201d\u009d evidence that the government of President Bashar Assad used nerve gas against its population last week, Kerry said that the world must respond to the use of weapons that have long been outlawed by international agreement.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama \u201cbelieves there must be accountability for those who would use the world\u2019s most heinous weapons against the world\u2019s most vulnerable people,\u201d\u009d Kerry said in a brief appearance at the State Department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/worldnow\/la-fg-wn-syria-us-kerry-20130826,0,4680728.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Monday condemned Syria\u2019s reported chemical weapons attacks as a \u201cmoral obscenity\u201d\u009d and declared that the Obama administration intends to move quickly to hold the Syrian government accountable. Citing \u201cundeniable\u201d\u009d evidence that the government<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39752\">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":[39,40,50,209,143,168,144,203,151,95,556,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-syria","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39752","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=39752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}