{"id":4833,"date":"2008-11-27T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T23:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2008-11-27T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T23:04:12","slug":"breaking-the-blockade-an-inside-look-at-the-free-gaza-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4833","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Blockade: an Inside Look At the Free Gaza Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"460\" height=\"384\" data=\"http:\/\/www.sanfranciscoiam.com\/themes\/default\/videoplayer\/flvplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param value=\"http:\/\/www.sanfranciscoiam.com\/themes\/default\/videoplayer\/flvplayer.swf\" name=\"movie\"\/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowScriptAccess\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\"value=\"true\" \/><param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\"\/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/www.sanfranciscoiam.com\/themes\/default\/videoplayer\/config.php?nid=454&#038;flv=http:\/\/somedia.cachefly.net\/sanfrancisco\/videos\/freegaza1.flv\"\/><\/object><br \/>\nMeet one of the human rights workers who broke the blockade of the Gaza Strip on August 23, 2008. Paul Larudee, is a piano tuner from El Cerrito. He says what he saw from his trip is something he&#8217;ll never forget. Currently, about 1.5 million Palestinians are stranded in Gaza after the Israeli government blocked them from crossing the seas. Israeli authorities say the blockade is in reaction against security threats made by Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanfranciscoiam.com\/videos\/07d30cc26c5d\">Richgail Enriquez has the full report<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freegaza.org\/?module=latest_news&#038;id=3b214008b9db625ff8a4d937323efed7\">via<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet one of the human rights workers who broke the blockade of the Gaza Strip on August 23, 2008. Paul Larudee, is a piano tuner from El Cerrito. He says what he saw from his trip is something he&#8217;ll never &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4833\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1fX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","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=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4835,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/4835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}