{"id":289,"date":"2006-03-19T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=289"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:32","slug":"valley-of-the-wolves-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Valley of the Wolves &#8211; Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m screening the turkish film <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Valley of the Wolves &#8211; Iraq<\/span>, a controversial account of what happened after 11 Turkish soldiers were abducted by American troops near the Iraqi border. The abduction as such actually occured; what happens later in the film probably falls under an artistic license of some sort.<\/p>\n<p>Be as it may, the Americans are supposedly less than happy about the film while Turks line up for seeing the movie, the most-seen film in Turkey, ever. At least, this is what I&#8217;ve been told by the enthusiastic Turks in the audience tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I love controversial stuff, and the film appears to deliver more than its share of that. Unfortunately, a Swedish premiere isn&#8217;t more likely than an American one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m screening the turkish film Valley of the Wolves &#8211; Iraq, a controversial account of what happened after 11 Turkish soldiers were abducted by American troops near the Iraqi border. The abduction as such actually occured; what happens later in the film probably falls under an artistic license of some sort. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}