{"id":640,"date":"2004-12-11T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2004-12-11T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:55","slug":"good_news_satur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"Good News Saturday &#8211; at Harvard with Mohammed and Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a very good-news Saturday here at Harvard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/archives\/2004_12_11.html#008652\" target=\"browser\">Jeff Jarvis says it perfectly<\/a>, so I&#8217;ll just point you over to his post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Mohammed now says: &#8220;It&#8217;s from person to person, from heart to heart. I did not have any trouble understanding people thousands of miles away from me in spite of language and distance&#8230;. We share many things. Media try to show only the differences between groups and countries but really human beings have many, many things to share&#8230;. Here in blogging, I learn from my readers&#8230;. I think through blogging we can spread love more than we can spread hate. I started blogging because I saw through the media that they just want to spread hate&#8230; I have a different story and many Iraqi people agree with me.<\/p>\n<p>\nAsked why they called their blog <a href=\"http:\/\/iraqthemodel.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"browser\">Iraq The Model<\/a>, they said, &#8220;Iraq will be a model for the Middle East region and the world&#8230;.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a fair amount of time face to face with Omar and Mohammed, and I wish that each of you could as well. They&#8217;ll be on the West Coast next week, and I&#8217;ll see if any of them are open, and will publicize them here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Judith has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hfienberg.com\/kesher\/2004\/12\/spirit-of-america-tour-link-roundup.html\">roundup of blog posts and news links covering Mohammed &#038; Omar&#8217;s tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a fair amount of time face to face with Iraqi bloggers Omar and Mohammed, and I wish that each of you could as well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}