{"id":2604,"date":"2007-07-04T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2007-07-04T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T17:44:42","slug":"hamas-frees-bbc-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/hamas-frees-bbc-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas frees BBC journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/NprProgramsATC\/~3\/130288665\/story.php\">NPR<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Alan Johnston<\/strong>, the BBC reporter held hostage by Islamist militants since March, has been freed. At the time of his capture, Johnston was the only Western journalist working full-time in Gaza. The Hamas movement seized full control of Gaza three weeks ago&#8230;<br \/>\nHamas had demanded Johnston&#8217;s freedom since it violently seized control of Gaza last month, apparently hoping to curry favor with the West. On Tuesday, Hamas gunmen took positions around Army of Islam&#8217;s stronghold, stepping up the pressure to secure his release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR: Alan Johnston, the BBC reporter held hostage by Islamist militants since March, has been freed. At the time of his capture, Johnston was the only Western journalist working full-time in Gaza. The Hamas movement seized full control of Gaza three weeks ago&#8230; Hamas had demanded Johnston&#8217;s freedom since it violently seized control of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/hamas-frees-bbc-journalist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hamas frees BBC journalist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-newsandpop","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-G0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}