{"id":22957,"date":"2018-05-08T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T07:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22957"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T07:32:45","slug":"the-continuing-tragedy-of-syrias-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22957","title":{"rendered":"The continuing tragedy of Syria&#8217;s civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent two hours this Bank Holiday weekend watching a double programme about the civil war in Syria. It was broadcast by the BBC and presented by its Canadian-born chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. You can check it out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0b227d4\">here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0b227d4\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The seven-year Syrian civil war is a conflict which has now lasted longer than the Second World War. Around half a million have been killed, more than 7 million are internally displaced, and some 5 million have been forced to flee the country.<\/p>\n<p>I have followed the war with special anguish because, just a couple of weeks before it began, I spent a week travelling all around Syria and I wrote up an account of the trip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Levant.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent two hours this Bank Holiday weekend watching a double programme about the civil war in Syria. It was broadcast by the BBC and presented by its Canadian-born chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. You can check it out\u00a0here. The seven-year Syrian civil war is a conflict which has now lasted longer than the Second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22964,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957\/revisions\/22964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}