{"id":350,"date":"2012-05-01T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2012-06-05T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:55:03","slug":"how-osama-bin-laden-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/how-osama-bin-laden-changed-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How Osama bin Laden Changed My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\">How Osama bin Laden Changed My Life<\/h1>\n<p align=\"center\">My\u00a0article this week is at <a title=\"The Huffington Post Matthew VanDyke\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/\">The Huffington Post<\/a>.\u00a0 Click below to read it:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"How Osama bin Laden Changed My Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/war-on-terror_b_1459243.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t learn that Osama bin Laden was dead until August 24, 2011, nearly four months after he was killed. I had just escaped from Abu Salim prison in Libya a few hours earlier and was talking to my girlfriend on the phone for the first time in nearly six months.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"How Osama bin Laden Changed My Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/war-on-terror_b_1459243.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I now realize with the benefit of hindsight that the course of my life was altered dramatically by Osama bin Laden in ways that I had never considered. 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