{"id":6226,"date":"2015-02-07T08:29:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6226"},"modified":"2015-02-07T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:29:42","slug":"my-people-under-the-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6226","title":{"rendered":"My People, Under The Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.afp.com\/correspondent\/?post%2Fdouma-strikes#.VNYhBBa9KnP\">Abd Doumany<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DOUMA, Syria, February 6, 2015 &#8211; It\u2019s an airstrike that wakes me up, just near my house in a rebel-held part of the Damascus suburbs. It\u2019s 8.30 am. I think at first it\u2019s just the one, but my hopes soon fade with the sound of another strike. And another.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;The bombing doesn\u2019t stop until sunset. The government jets target everything. Apartment blocks, mosques, schools, even a hospital. The assault is in reprisal for a major rebel attack that left 10 dead in the capital the day before. As I have taken to doing in such cases, I head down to the makeshift clinic, where I witness the most awful scenes you could imagine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abd Doumany: DOUMA, Syria, February 6, 2015 &#8211; It\u2019s an airstrike that wakes me up, just near my house in a rebel-held part of the Damascus suburbs. It\u2019s 8.30 am. I think at first it\u2019s just the one, but my hopes soon fade with the sound of another strike. And another.&nbsp;&nbsp;The bombing doesn\u2019t stop until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6227,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}