{"id":2728,"date":"2003-04-09T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/09\/day-21-of-10\/"},"modified":"2003-04-09T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2003-04-09T12:53:05","slug":"day-21-of-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200304\/day-21-of-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 21 of 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><small>Jubilant Iraqis have greeted arriving marines in the Shia stronghold of Saddam City, the BBC&#8217;s Andrew Gilligan in Baghdad reports. <\/p>\n<p><b>United Nations offices have been ransacked<\/b> and the Olympic Committee building &#8211; headquarters of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s elder son Uday &#8211; set on fire.<br \/>&#8230;<br \/>The BBC&#8217;s Paul Wood says people would not be behaving in this way unless they were sure Saddam Hussein&#8217;s grip on the city had been broken.<br \/><\/small><\/cite>(<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/2930913.stm\" class = \"source\">BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saddam regime crumbles in Baghdad<\/a>)<br \/><img src = \"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/39072000\/jpg\/_39072257_cheering_tv300.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There were similar scenes in East Pakistan, 1971<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jubilant Iraqis have greeted arriving marines in the Shia stronghold of Saddam City, the BBC&#8217;s Andrew Gilligan in Baghdad reports. United Nations offices have been ransacked and the Olympic Committee building &#8211; headquarters of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s elder son Uday &#8211; set on fire.&#8230;The BBC&#8217;s Paul Wood says people would not be behaving in this way [&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\/2728"}],"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=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}