{"id":2901,"date":"2009-08-19T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2009-08-19T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:01:30","slug":"violence-preceeds-afghan-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/19\/violence-preceeds-afghan-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence preceeds Afghan election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2903\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/Karzai-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Karzai\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>With violence escalating as the Afghan election approaches, the government is <a title=\"barring reporting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/19\/world\/asia\/19afghan.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\">barring reporting <\/a>on election-day disturbances.\u00a0 Despite the turmoil, however, embattled President Hamid Karzai <a title=\"appears headed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/18\/AR2009081803156_pf.html\" target=\"_blank\">appears headed <\/a>for re-election.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Nick Mills\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/nick_b_mills.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Mills<\/a>, who has known Karzai since running BU&#8217;s Afghan Media Project in the 1980s, can comment on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Nick Mills, 617-353-3492, <a href=\"mailto:nmills@bu.edu\">nmills@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With violence escalating as the Afghan election approaches, the government is barring reporting on election-day disturbances.\u00a0 Despite the turmoil, however, embattled President Hamid Karzai appears headed for re-election.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Nick Mills, who has known Karzai since running BU&#8217;s Afghan Media Project in the 1980s, can comment on the situation. Contact Nick Mills, 617-353-3492, nmills@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}