{"id":48797,"date":"2015-03-11T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_i_wish_i_could_also_have_died_boko_haram_haunts_kids\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:00:40","slug":"usa_today_i_wish_i_could_also_have_died_boko_haram_haunts_kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48797","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) &#39;I wish I could also have died&#39;: Boko Haram haunts kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memories of Boko Haram&#8217;s murderous spree in his Nigerian hometown haunt Tom Gowon, 9, as he sits on a patch of grass at a refugee camp, sipping steaming porridge from a plastic mug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was lucky because I was not killed,&#8221; said Gowon, recalling the assault on Baga, Nigeria, in early January. &#8220;But they shot and killed my father. My mother was kidnapped by the militants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Children such as Gowon bear the brunt of Boko Haram&#8217;s rampage since its fighters kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last year and conquered enough territory to declare a caliphate that covers one-fifth of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2015\/03\/10\/children-suffer-boko-haram\/24665559\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memories of Boko Haram&#8217;s murderous spree in his Nigerian hometown haunt Tom Gowon, 9, as he sits on a patch of grass at a refugee camp, sipping steaming porridge from a plastic mug. &#8220;I was lucky because I was not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48797\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,551,101,168,426,327,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48797","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-chad","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","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\/48797","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=48797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}