{"id":48629,"date":"2015-03-01T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_bangladesh_pays_tribute_to_american_blogger_avijit_roy_killed_in_ma\/"},"modified":"2015-03-01T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T16:45:10","slug":"reuters_bangladesh_pays_tribute_to_american_blogger_avijit_roy_killed_in_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48629","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Bangladesh pays tribute to American blogger Avijit Roy killed in machete attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladeshis on Sunday paid tribute to an American critic of religious extremism killed in Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support free thinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.<\/p>\n<p>Avijit Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin, was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants on Thursday after a book fair, sparking widespread condemnation from home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>His wife and fellow blogger Rafida Ahmed suffered head injuries and lost a finger and remains in hospital in a serious condition. The attack comes amid a crackdown on hardline Islamist groups, which have increased activities in recent years in the South Asian nation of 160 million people. No arrest has been made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/neighbours\/bangladesh-pays-tribute-to-american-blogger-avijit-roy-killed-in-machete-attack\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladeshis on Sunday paid tribute to an American critic of religious extremism killed in Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support free thinking values in the Muslim-majority nation. Avijit Roy, a US citizen of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48629\">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":[48,39,50,201,355,94,438,184,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-bangladesh","category-blogging-the-internet","category-death-burial-funerals","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48629","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=48629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}