{"id":55180,"date":"2016-07-21T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_south_sudan_crisis_the_wounds_of_war\/"},"modified":"2016-07-21T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:00:07","slug":"bbc_south_sudan_crisis_the_wounds_of_war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55180","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) South Sudan crisis: The wounds of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was bodyguards for opposition leader-turned first Vice-President Riek Machar and Mr Kiir&#8217;s presidential guards who fought each other, sparking days of violence earlier this month which killed many hundreds of soldiers and civilians.<br \/>\nBizarrely, both leaders were inside the building at the time, as were the city&#8217;s press corps &#8211; they videoed themselves cowering as the gunfire erupted around them.<br \/>\nAs the shooting stopped, the two men gave a joint press conference appealing for calm.<br \/>\nThat the fighting continued for the next few days is either a sign they that do not control their troops, or they care more about settling scores than they do about their people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-36844048\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bodyguards for opposition leader-turned first Vice-President Riek Machar and Mr Kiir&#8217;s presidential guards who fought each other, sparking days of violence earlier this month which killed many hundreds of soldiers and civilians. Bizarrely, both leaders were inside the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55180\">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":[39,40,50,664,202,143,140,168,151,346,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-sudan","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-sudan","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55180","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=55180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}