{"id":48743,"date":"2015-03-08T04:16:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T04:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_nigerias_boko_haram_pledges_allegiance_to_isis\/"},"modified":"2015-03-08T04:16:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T04:16:16","slug":"bbc_nigerias_boko_haram_pledges_allegiance_to_isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48743","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Nigeria&#39;s Boko Haram pledges allegiance to ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), according to an audio statement.<\/p>\n<p>The message, which was not verified, was posted on Boko Haram&#8217;s Twitter account and appeared to be by the group&#8217;s leader, Abubakar Shekau.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram began a military campaign to impose Islamic rule in northern Nigeria in 2009. The conflict has since spread to neighbouring states.<\/p>\n<p>It would be the latest in a series of groups to swear allegiance to IS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-31784538\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), according to an audio statement. The message, which was not verified, was posted on Boko Haram&#8217;s Twitter account and appeared to be by the group&#8217;s leader, Abubakar Shekau.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48743\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,168,426,203,327,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-nigeria","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\/48743","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=48743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}