{"id":438,"date":"2004-04-11T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2004-04-11T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=438"},"modified":"2004-04-11T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2004-04-11T13:32:12","slug":"arlington-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Arlington West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteransforpeace.org\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img26.photobucket.com\/albums\/v79\/mokie\/VFP.bmp\" alt=\"Nancy Tunnell, a member of Veterans for Peace (VFP) smooths the sand at a memorial dedicated to American soldiers killed in Iraq Sunday, April 4, 2004, in Santa Barbara, Calif. In silent protest every Sunday, VFP groups in Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Calif., and Oceanside, Calif., erect white wooden crosses on the beach for every American serviceman killed in Iraq. AP Photo\/Ric Francis\" style = \"padding: 2px;\" height=150 width=150 border=0><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Excerpted from: <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/war_memorial\"><b>Memorial Marks U.S. Toll From Iraq War <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SANTA BARBARA, Calif. &#8211; Lane Anderson sees the ghosts of fallen troops he knew in Vietnam when he looks out at the sea of white crosses that cover the sandy shore near Stearns Wharf. The memorial, dubbed &#8220;Arlington West,&#8221; is made up of one small cross for each U.S. military death in Iraq (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.search.yahoo.com\/search\/news\/?p=%22Iraq%22&#038;c=&#038;n=20&#038;yn=c&#038;c=news&#038;cs=nw\">news<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/bin\/search?cs=nw&#038;p=Iraq\">web sites<\/a>), placed on the beach at sunrise and taken down at sunset every Sunday. This Sunday, more crosses will be added to the mock cemetery for deaths in this past week&#8217;s fierce fighting at Fallujah and Ramadi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from: Memorial Marks U.S. Toll From Iraq War SANTA BARBARA, Calif. &#8211; Lane Anderson sees the ghosts of fallen troops he knew in Vietnam when he looks out at the sea of white crosses that cover the sandy shore &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-74","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}