{"id":46384,"date":"2014-10-15T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_isis_militants_redraw_iraqs_borders_separating_people_from_their_school\/"},"modified":"2014-10-15T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:00:46","slug":"wsj_isis_militants_redraw_iraqs_borders_separating_people_from_their_school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46384","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) ISIS militants redraw Iraq&#39;s borders, separating people from their schools +jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attalaf al Nour, a farmer who lives in Iraq\u2019s Sunni heartland, long enjoyed a simple life that revolved around livestock, crops and trips to the city to sell his grain.<\/p>\n<p>But since July, when Islamic State militants swept into Iraq, his world has been upended by new geographic and political borders that don\u2019t yet appear on any map. They are fracturing Iraq\u2019s fragile cohesion by forcing thousands of families to cross, at their peril, militant checkpoints to reach their markets, schools and jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIraq is broken like never before, thanks to Daaesh,\u201d\u009d said Mr. Nour, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State. \u201cWe are all divided and our lives are now upside down.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/islamic-state-militants-redraw-iraqi-borders-1413313501?mod=e2tw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attalaf al Nour, a farmer who lives in Iraq\u2019s Sunni heartland, long enjoyed a simple life that revolved around livestock, crops and trips to the city to sell his grain. But since July, when Islamic State militants swept into Iraq,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46384\">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":[39,40,50,42,143,168,144,557,203,154,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46384","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=46384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}