{"id":63933,"date":"2016-01-20T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63933"},"modified":"2016-01-20T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:58:12","slug":"1400-year-old-mosul-monastery-destroyed-by-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63933","title":{"rendered":"1400-year-old Mosul Monastery destroyed by ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SSG E sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/rudaw.net\/english\/middleeast\/iraq\/200120162\">a link to the news<\/a> that ISIS has destroyed a 1400-year-old Christian monastery in Mosul, Iraq. SSG E says that he attended services in the historic building at one point during his tour of Iraq;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AP has confirmed that the 1,400-year-old St. Elijah&#8217;s Monastery of Mosul has been completely destroyed by the group.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. personnel who had served in Mosul and attempted to preserve the historic site are deeply saddened by the destruction.<\/p>\n<p>An army reservist who was deployed there during the Iraq War, Col. Mary Prophit, says she &#8220;would imagine that many people are feeling like, &#8216;What were the last 10 years for if these guys can go in and destroy everything?'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, you know, this isn&#8217;t a war about religion, we&#8217;re told. <\/p>\n<p>US troops visit the monastery;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63935\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/St.-Elijahs-Monastery-of-Mosul-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"St. Elijah&#039;s Monastery of Mosul\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/St.-Elijahs-Monastery-of-Mosul-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/St.-Elijahs-Monastery-of-Mosul-496x333.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/St.-Elijahs-Monastery-of-Mosul.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>ISIS troops visit the monastery;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63934\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63934\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/St.-Elijahs-Monastery-of-Mosul-a-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"St. Elijah&#039;s Monastery of Mosul a\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/St.-Elijahs-Monastery-of-Mosul-a-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/St.-Elijahs-Monastery-of-Mosul-a-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/St.-Elijahs-Monastery-of-Mosul-a.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSG E sends us a link to the news that ISIS has destroyed a 1400-year-old Christian &hellip; <a title=\"1400-year-old Mosul Monastery destroyed by ISIS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63933\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1400-year-old Mosul Monastery destroyed by ISIS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63933","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}