{"id":2,"date":"2006-08-12T20:59:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T01:59:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-09-02T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T21:00:58","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montrealiraqi.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I. I am an Iraqi-Canadian and I am an optimist. Just after the fall of Saddam I sat with my Iraqi friends in a cafe in Montreal and we had two out-of-town visitors. The two were collecting names of  Iraqis with experience, when it was my turn to give my name I was by-passed. If I were somebody else I would have been hurt, but I went home that night feeling special, I felt like Joseph the Prophet and I didn&#8217;t say the cup was three quarters empty, I said to myself the cup is quarter full. That&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montrealiraqi.com\/images\/MyPicAug05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I. I am an Iraqi-Canadian and I am an optimist. Just after the fall of Saddam I sat with my Iraqi friends in a cafe in Montreal and we had two out-of-town visitors. The two were collecting names of Iraqis with experience, when it was my turn to give my name I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montrealiraqi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montrealiraqi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montrealiraqi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montrealiraqi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montrealiraqi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montrealiraqi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montrealiraqi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}