{"id":475,"date":"2003-10-05T03:52:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-05T08:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2003-10-05T03:52:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-05T08:52:04","slug":"the-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/05\/the-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2080812\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Does a &#8220;Thumbs Up&#8221; Mean in Iraq?<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nIraqis are giving passing Americans the &#8220;thumbs up&#8221; sign, which the troops interpret as a symbol of support. But many veteran travelers insist that the gesture is a crass Middle Eastern insult. How should coalition forces take those skyward thumbs?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does a &#8220;Thumbs Up&#8221; Mean in Iraq? Iraqis are giving passing Americans the &#8220;thumbs up&#8221; sign, which the troops interpret as a symbol of support. But many veteran travelers insist that the gesture is a crass Middle Eastern insult. How should coalition forces take those skyward thumbs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}