{"id":619,"date":"2013-01-08T21:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2013-01-25T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T21:16:14","slug":"syria-long-hard-slog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/syria-long-hard-slog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long, Hard Slog That Is Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This week&#8217;s blog post is at The Huffington Post<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Long, Hard Slog That Is Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/the-long-hard-slog-that-i_b_2422553.html\">The Long, Hard Slog That Is Syria<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Standing on the front lines in Aleppo you can&#8217;t just smell the gunpowder, you can smell the depression.\u00a0 It hangs in the air far thicker than smoke, and with far worse effects.\u00a0 The fighters have a hard time seeing through it but they push forward anyway, having no choice.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read it by clicking <a title=\"The Long, Hard Slog That Is Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/the-long-hard-slog-that-i_b_2422553.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Also available in French <a title=\"Le long p\u00e9nible chemin de la Syrie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/fr\/long-penible-chemin-syrie.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please leave comments at The Huffington Post website below the article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s blog post is at The Huffington Post The Long, Hard Slog That Is Syria &#8220;Standing on the front lines in Aleppo you can&#8217;t just smell the gunpowder, you can smell the depression.\u00a0 It hangs in the air far &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/syria-long-hard-slog\/\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,7,14,15],"tags":[78,150,80],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-spring","category-libya","category-syria","category-war","tag-aleppo","tag-free-syrian-army","tag-fsa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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