{"id":4359,"date":"2003-09-17T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T22:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2003-09-17T15:36:46","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T22:36:46","slug":"bits_and_pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/17\/bits_and_pieces.html","title":{"rendered":"Bits and pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A detailed summary of <a title=\"Cronaca: Baghdad Museum looting update\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cronaca.com\/archives\/001439.html\">the current state of the Baghdad Museum<\/a> and its recovery from looting and vandalism.  Quite a few interesting points here, as the incident is viewed (at last) outside the heated rhetorical conflict of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A detailed summary of the current state of the Baghdad Museum and its recovery from looting and vandalism. 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