{"id":47033,"date":"2014-11-24T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_isis_is_recruiting_and_exploiting_children\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T15:39:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:39:57","slug":"ap_isis_is_recruiting_and_exploiting_children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47033","title":{"rendered":"(AP) ISIS Is Recruiting And Exploiting Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teenagers carrying weapons stand at checkpoints and busy intersections in Iraq&#8217;s second-largest city, Mosul. Patched onto the left arms of their black uniforms are the logos of the Islamic Police.<\/p>\n<p>In Raqqa, the Islamic State group&#8217;s de facto capital in Syria, boys attend training camp and religious courses before heading off to fight. Others serve as cooks or guards at the extremists&#8217; headquarters or as spies, informing on people in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Across the vast region under IS control, the group is actively conscripting children for battle and committing abuses against the most vulnerable at a young age, according to a growing body of evidence assembled from residents, activists, independent experts and human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/11\/23\/isis-child-soldiers_n_6207064.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenagers carrying weapons stand at checkpoints and busy intersections in Iraq&#8217;s second-largest city, Mosul. Patched onto the left arms of their black uniforms are the logos of the Islamic Police. In Raqqa, the Islamic State group&#8217;s de facto capital in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47033\">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":[39,40,101,168,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47033","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=47033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}