{"id":922,"date":"2008-05-06T07:42:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T07:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=922"},"modified":"2014-03-06T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:30:38","slug":"disnification-on-the-tigris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Disnification on the Tigris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This in today&#8217;s <i>Guardian<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Picture, if you will, a tree-lined plaza in Baghdad&#8217;s International Village, flanked by fashion boutiques, swanky cafes, and shiny glass office towers. Nearby a golf course nestles agreeably, where a chip over the water to the final green is but a prelude to cocktails in the club house and a soothing massage in a luxury hotel, which would not look out of place in Sydney harbour. Then, as twilight falls, a pre-prandial stroll, perhaps, amid the cool of the Tigris Riverfront Park, where the peace is broken only by the soulful cries of egrets fishing.<\/p>\n<p>Improbable though it all may seem, this is how some imaginative types in the US military are envisaging the future of Baghdad&#8217;s Green Zone, the much-pummelled redoubt of the Iraqi capital where a bunker shot has until now had very different connotations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/may\/06\/iraq\">goes on<\/a>, if you have the stomach. &#8220;Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club&#8221; indeed&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2008\/05\/05\/greenzone10d.jpg\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This in today&#8217;s Guardian: Picture, if you will, a tree-lined plaza in Baghdad&#8217;s International Village, flanked by fashion boutiques, swanky cafes, and shiny glass office towers. Nearby a golf course nestles agreeably, where a chip over the water to the final green is but a prelude to cocktails in the club house and a soothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argybargy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}