{"id":47995,"date":"2015-01-21T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_meet_the_americans_on_the_front_lines_in_the_fight_against_isis\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T17:00:47","slug":"time_meet_the_americans_on_the_front_lines_in_the_fight_against_isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47995","title":{"rendered":"(Time) Meet the Americans on the Front Lines in the Fight Against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has said it won\u2019t be sending soldiers to fight ISIS but some Americans have found their own way there<\/p>\n<p>When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) surrounded the Yezidi tribes on Sinjar Mountain in August last year, Dean Parker was at his job as a commercial painter in the U.S.. That evening, he saw news reports of Kurdish fighters trying to liberate the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made the decision right there,\u201d\u009d says Parker, now sitting in his hotel room in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. \u201cI was online booking a ticket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3674281\/isis-us-kurds-iraq\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has said it won\u2019t be sending soldiers to fight ISIS but some Americans have found their own way there When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) surrounded the Yezidi tribes on Sinjar Mountain in August last<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47995\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,143,168,557,426,203,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47995","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=47995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}