{"id":3436,"date":"2005-01-28T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T22:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgtstryker.com\/index.php\/archives\/friends-of-democracy\/"},"modified":"2005-01-28T16:43:56","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T22:43:56","slug":"friends-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/friends-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s part of an email I received from Jim Hake of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritofamerica.net\/\">Spirit of America<\/a> talking up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofdemocracy.info\">Friends of Democracy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spirit of America&#8217;s work with Friends of Democracy to provide a full<br \/>\npicture of Iraq&#8217;s elections is coming to fruition.  This project has<br \/>\nbeen to provide a ground-level view of the elections from the people<br \/>\nand bloggers of Iraq (yes, I know, bloggers are people, too).  There<br \/>\nare lots of good reports already on the Friends of Democracy site at<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.friendsofdemocracy.info <\/p>\n<p>The information is not &#8220;candy coated&#8221; &#8211; it simply does more than<br \/>\nemphasize terrorism and violence. It provides good news and bad.<br \/>\nPlease link to the site and check it for news.  It will be especially<br \/>\ngood on election day. We&#8217;ll have reports and photos coming in from all<br \/>\ncorners of Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Iraqi election news from (GASP!) Iraqis.<\/p>\n<p>How cool is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s part of an email I received from Jim Hake of Spirit of America talking up Friends of Democracy: Spirit of America&#8217;s work with Friends of Democracy to provide a full picture of Iraq&#8217;s elections is coming to fruition. This project has been to provide a ground-level view of the elections from the people and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-the-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}