{"id":982,"date":"2003-11-20T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T21:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2006-07-03T21:09:51","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T04:09:51","slug":"series-of-bombs-rocks-downtown-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/series-of-bombs-rocks-downtown-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Series of Bombs Rocks Downtown Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A64186-2003Nov20.html\">Series of Bombs Rocks Downtown Istanbul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISTANBUL, Nov. 20&#8211;Two powerful explosions, five minutes apart, ripped through Istanbul Thursday, killing at least 27 and injuring more than 450. The targets included the British consulate and a British bank. <\/p>\n<p>Among the dead was Britain&#8217;s consul-general, Roger Short, according to Britain&#8217;s foreign office. He was one of 14 killed at the consulate, BBC News reported. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the blast, like the Saturday attacks on synagogues here that killed 23 and injured 300, occurred within five minutes of one another.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two sets of attacks within one week. The symbolism of choosing British and Jewish targets is pretty clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Series of Bombs Rocks Downtown Istanbul ISTANBUL, Nov. 20&#8211;Two powerful explosions, five minutes apart, ripped through Istanbul Thursday, killing at least 27 and injuring more than 450. The targets included the British consulate and a British bank. Among the dead was Britain&#8217;s consul-general, Roger Short, according to Britain&#8217;s foreign office. He was one of 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-fQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}