{"id":4867,"date":"2010-11-04T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2010-11-04T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T06:10:08","slug":"october-16-2004-5-churches-bombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/christiansiraq\/october-16-2004-5-churches-bombed\/","title":{"rendered":"October 16, 2004, 5 churches bombed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Five churches were bombed in Baghdad in a coordinated attack.<br \/>\nThe church of Saint Joseph in the west of the Iraqi capital was hit at about 4:00 am (0100 GMT).<br \/>\nTwenty minutes later, another blast ripped through the streets at another Saint Joseph church, in Dora, southern Baghdad. After another 20 minutes, Saint Paul&#8217;s church was struck in the same area.<br \/>\nAt 4:50 am, the Roman Catholic St. George church in the central district of Karrada was rocked by a blast and engulfed in flames, leaving the wood-built sanctuary completely charred.<br \/>\nA fifth explosion occurred about an hour later at Saint Thomas church in Mansour, to the west.<br \/>\nAn artillery shell, believed to be intended for the church, was fired into a car park between a hotel and Saint George&#8217;s Anglican Church.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five churches were bombed in Baghdad in a coordinated attack. The church of Saint Joseph in the west of the Iraqi capital was hit at about 4:00 am (0100 GMT). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christiansiraq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}