{"id":3770,"date":"2003-03-23T20:19:50","date_gmt":"2003-03-23T19:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2003-03-23T20:19:50","modified_gmt":"2003-03-23T19:19:50","slug":"it-seems-incredible-that-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/03\/23\/it-seems-incredible-that-i\/","title":{"rendered":"It seems incredible that I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems incredible that I can sit here in the comfort of my safe, warm and peaceful home, and watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsa\/n5ctrl\/live\/now2.ram\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"requires Real Player\">live video<\/a> with sound from Baghdad.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s 11.20pm on a Sunday evening in the Iraqi capital city. It seems very quiet.<br \/>\nUPDATE: 11.35pm, and the sound is filled with the noise of gunfire and distant explosions. I&#8217;ve spotted a few flashes in the sky, probably anti-aircraft fire. It is so strange to be able to watch and hear this unfolding from such a distance.<br \/>\nFURTHER UPDATE: the transmission has been interrupted. The BBC website warns that the webcast may be intermittent, which is barely surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems incredible that I can sit here in the comfort of my safe, warm and peaceful home, and watch live video with sound from Baghdad. It&#8217;s 11.20pm on a Sunday evening in the Iraqi capital city. It seems very quiet. UPDATE: 11.35pm, and the sound is filled with the noise of gunfire and distant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}