{"id":6393,"date":"2008-05-29T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_vicars_hope_over_iraq_hostages\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T19:10:00","slug":"a_vicars_hope_over_iraq_hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6393","title":{"rendered":"A Vicar&#39;s hope over Iraq hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first anniversary of the abduction of five Britons in Iraq, a vicar helping the negotiations revealed he is \u201cthe most hopeful\u201d\u009d he has been of finding them alive.<\/p>\n<p>Canon Andrew White, dubbed the Vicar of Baghdad, spoke to the Western Mail yesterday to mark the passing of a year since the kidnapping on May 29, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The families of all five men \u201d\u201c two of whom are from Wales, two from Scotland and a Lincoln computer expert \u201d\u201c are expected to speak out publicly today for the first time since the men were abducted outside the Finance Ministry in Baghdad\u2019s notorious Sadr City suburb.<\/p>\n<p>They have recorded a video message to be broadcast this afternoon to mark the anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icwales.icnetwork.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/2008\/05\/29\/vicar-s-hope-over-iraq-hostages-91466-20989014\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first anniversary of the abduction of five Britons in Iraq, a vicar helping the negotiations revealed he is \u201cthe most hopeful\u201d\u009d he has been of finding them alive. Canon Andrew White, dubbed the Vicar of Baghdad, spoke to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6393\">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":[40,50,199,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-iraq-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393","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=6393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}