{"id":2590,"date":"2003-01-01T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T05:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/01\/a-tiff-between-friends\/"},"modified":"2003-01-01T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T05:08:48","slug":"a-tiff-between-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/a-tiff-between-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"A tiff between friends."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1> US forces in Afghanistan bombed a Pakistani border patrol after they were shot at by a Pakistani soldier, the US military has revealed.<br \/>A statement said that a B-52 dropped a bomb near the border town of Shkin after a Pakistani guard opened fire and wounded an American soldier.<br \/>He started shooting after being asked to return to his side of the border. <\/font><\/cite>( <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/2616939.stm\" class=\"source\">BBC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what I find funnier &#8211; that there is such good friendship between the two allies, or the fact that it is apparently standard procedure for American soldiers to call in B-52 bombers when under fire from   even <i>one<\/i> guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US forces in Afghanistan bombed a Pakistani border patrol after they were shot at by a Pakistani soldier, the US military has revealed.A statement said that a B-52 dropped a bomb near the border town of Shkin after a Pakistani guard opened fire and wounded an American soldier.He started shooting after being asked to return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}