{"id":6922,"date":"2008-01-09T22:54:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/09\/taking-a-stand-link\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T22:54:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:54:23","slug":"taking-a-stand-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2008\/01\/09\/taking-a-stand-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a stand link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Saad Eskander, director of Iraq&#8217;s National Library, explains why he decided to return from exile in Britain in an attempt to preserve his country&#8217;s rich cultural heritage in the face of extremists and corruption. He describes what it is like to live with the threat of assassination in a city where sectarian gangs have killed thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/takingastand\/pip\/0u2j8\/\" title=\"BBC Radio 4 Interview\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Saad Eskander, director of Iraq&#8217;s National Library, explains why he decided to return from exile in Britain in an attempt to preserve his country&#8217;s rich cultural heritage in the face of extremists and corruption. He describes what it is like to live with the threat of assassination in a city where sectarian gangs have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,45,46,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-iraq","category-iraqi-literature","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}