{"id":56492,"date":"2014-11-16T11:34:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56492"},"modified":"2014-11-16T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:40:05","slug":"good-news-and-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56492","title":{"rendered":"Good News &#8211; and Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three unconfirmed news reports out of the Syria\/Iraq area today.  One is good news; the others, bad.<\/p>\n<p>First, the bad news \u2013 which hopefully will turn out to be wrong:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20141116\/ml--islamic_state-f92391ad58.html\"><strong><em>Islamic State group beheads US aid worker<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, Kurdish leaders are claiming that ISIS\/ISIL\/whatever the hell they&#8217;re calling themselves these days are 200,000 strong &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/war-with-isis-islamic-militants-have-army-of-200000-claims-kurdish-leader-9863418.html\"><strong><em>7 or 8 times larger than the foreign intel estimates<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (up to 31,500).<\/p>\n<p>Now, some good news (which I obviously hope is true):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2836124\/GOT-Jihadi-John-wounded-airstrike-Foreign-Office-confirms-MOS-aware-reports-injury.html\"><strong><em>Got him! Jihadi John is &#8216;wounded in US airstrike that killed 10 top ISIS commanders at secret bunker meeting in Iraq&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again:  hopefully the first story will turn out to be false.  As for the second, assuming it&#8217;s true . . . may you fail to recover, \u201cJihadi John\u201d &#8211; then meet Shaytan and burn in hell.  Forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three unconfirmed news reports out of the Syria\/Iraq area today. One is good news; the others, &hellip; <a title=\"Good News &#8211; and Bad News\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56492\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good News &#8211; and Bad News<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}