{"id":461,"date":"2004-04-22T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=461"},"modified":"2004-04-22T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T18:52:08","slug":"woman-loses-her-job-over-coffins-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Woman loses her job over coffins photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Hal Bernton<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/cgi-bin\/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2001909527&#038;zsection_id=268448413&#038;slug=coffin22m&#038;date=20040422\">Seattle Times staff reporter <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday&#8217;s edition of The Seattle Times. <\/p>\n<p>Silicio was let go yesterday for violating U.S. government and company regulations, said William Silva, president of Maytag Aircraft, the contractor that employed Silicio at Kuwait International Airport. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like I was hit in the chest with a steel bar and got my wind knocked out. I have to admit I liked my job, and I liked what I did,&#8221; Silicio said. <\/p>\n<p>Her photograph, taken earlier this month, shows more than 20 flag-draped coffins in a cargo plane about to depart from Kuwait. Since 1991, the Pentagon has banned the media from taking pictures of caskets being returned to the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And will anyone be allowed or bother to investigate what led to <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnewyork.com\/national\/SoldierRobbery-aa\/resources_news_html\">this man&#8217;s<\/a> belief &#8220;the only thing I can live in is an 8-by-8 cell&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>[I had a link here to the pictures but removed it @ 12:00p.m.  4\/24\/04]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hal Bernton Seattle Times staff reporter A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday&#8217;s edition of The Seattle Times. Silicio was let go &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=461\">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-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-7r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}