{"id":48628,"date":"2015-03-01T16:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T16:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_u-s-_blogger_avijit_roy_hacked_to_death_in_bangladesh\/"},"modified":"2015-03-01T16:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T16:28:25","slug":"ap_u-s-_blogger_avijit_roy_hacked_to_death_in_bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48628","title":{"rendered":"(AP) U.S. blogger Avijit Roy hacked to death in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent U.S. blogger, known for his writing against religious fundamentalism, has been hacked to death by unidentified attackers in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Avijit Roy, a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen, took place late Thursday when he and his wife Rafida Ahmed, who was seriously injured in the attack, were returning from a book fair at Dhaka University.<\/p>\n<p>It was not known who was behind the attack, but Roy&#8217;s family and friends say he was a prominent voice against religious fanatics and received threats in the past. No groups have claimed the responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The local police chief, Sirajul Islam, told The Associated Press that the assailants used cleavers to attack Roy and his wife, who is also a blogger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-blogger-avijit-roy-hacked-to-death-in-bangladesh\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent U.S. blogger, known for his writing against religious fundamentalism, has been hacked to death by unidentified attackers in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital, police said Friday. The attack on Avijit Roy, a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen, took place late Thursday when he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48628\">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":[39,50,201,355,94,92,168,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-bangladesh","category-blogging-the-internet","category-books","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48628","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=48628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}