{"id":417,"date":"2003-09-08T21:55:43","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T21:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/09\/the_baghdad_blo\/"},"modified":"2003-09-08T21:55:43","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T21:55:43","slug":"the_baghdad_blo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/the_baghdad_blo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baghdad Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sometimes seems like everyone and their mum heard about Salam Pax and his <a href=\"http:\/\/dear_raed.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a> from downtown Bagdhad in the run-up and lead into the Gulf War. At one point The Guardian republished extensive excerpts from his blog.<br \/>\nAnyhow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1843542625\">this book<\/a> is basically that blog in book form, re-ordered a little, and with a couple of <i>Salam Pax&#8217;s<\/i> Guardian columns thrown in. It certainly makes for an entertaining and thoroughly enlightening read, although there&#8217;s probably little point in reading it if you&#8217;ve read the blog over the last year or so. I thought that perhaps there&#8217;d be some extra material, but it must be said that everything here is published elsewhere on the web. Having said that, a book does lend authority, and is now saved for posterity. If you hadn&#8217;t read the blog, then I&#8217;d wholeheartedly recommend this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sometimes seems like everyone and their mum heard about Salam Pax and his blog from downtown Bagdhad in the run-up and lead into the Gulf War. At one point The Guardian republished extensive excerpts from his blog. Anyhow, this book is basically that blog in book form, re-ordered a little, and with a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}