{"id":1590,"date":"2015-06-20T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T13:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2015-06-20T08:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T14:16:45","slug":"the-destruction-of-an-ancient-buddhist-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/the-destruction-of-an-ancient-buddhist-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Memory:  The destruction of an ancient Buddhist city&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Mes Aynak had to contend with Taliban fanatics, now China&#8217;s state-owned mining company will finish the job the Taliban started. \u00a0This is just so tragic. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Afghanistan-buddhist-city-Mes-Aynak.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Afghanistan-buddhist-city-Mes-Aynak-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Afghanistan buddhist city Mes Aynak\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Afghanistan-buddhist-city-Mes-Aynak-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Afghanistan-buddhist-city-Mes-Aynak.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@BrentHuffman\/good-and-bad-news-about-the-impending-destruction-of-mes-aynak-an-ancient-buddhist-city-in-a2b913d48c98\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@BrentHuffman\/good-and-bad-news-about-the-impending-destruction-of-mes-aynak-an-ancient-buddhist-city-in-a2b913d48c98<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that killing symbols is the first step to killing memory, to killing history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Mes Aynak had to contend with Taliban fanatics, now China&#8217;s state-owned mining company will finish the job the Taliban started. \u00a0This is just so tragic. \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/medium.com\/@BrentHuffman\/good-and-bad-news-about-the-impending-destruction-of-mes-aynak-an-ancient-buddhist-city-in-a2b913d48c98 Keep in mind that killing symbols is the first step to killing memory, to killing history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}