{"id":46010,"date":"2014-09-23T15:14:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_south_sudans_boy_soldiers_swap_schoolbooks_for_kalashnikovs\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:14:24","slug":"bloomberg_south_sudans_boy_soldiers_swap_schoolbooks_for_kalashnikovs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46010","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) South Sudan\u2019s Boy Soldiers Swap Schoolbooks for Kalashnikovs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine months ago Bol Olor Ding and his friend Kamis Ngor Ajack were in school studying math and science. Now, at the ages of 14 and 15, they\u2019re veterans of the civil war in South Sudan that\u2019s created one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n<p>After fighting forced their schools to close, the two boys exchanged their classrooms for the battlefield and received a government army uniform and a Kalashnikov assault rifle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t have a gun you will be killed,\u201d\u009d Ajack said through an interpreter in the town of Wau Shilluk, whose population of 5,000 has swollen to 40,000 as violence spreads in the oil-rich state of Upper Nile. \u201cI was afraid of fighting in the beginning, but when I got a gun and uniform I became brave.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-09-22\/south-sudan-s-boy-soldiers-exchange-schoolbooks-for-kalashnikovs.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine months ago Bol Olor Ding and his friend Kamis Ngor Ajack were in school studying math and science. Now, at the ages of 14 and 15, they\u2019re veterans of the civil war in South Sudan that\u2019s created one of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46010\">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":[39,40,50,664,202,101,168,144,151,346,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-sudan","category-africa","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-sudan","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46010","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=46010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}