{"id":1151,"date":"2012-01-13T00:53:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2012-01-13T00:53:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:53:25","slug":"veterans-flood-iraqi-restaurant-to-show-support-after-rock-thrown-through-its-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/veterans-flood-iraqi-restaurant-to-show-support-after-rock-thrown-through-its-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Flood Iraqi Restaurant To Show Support After Rock Thrown Through Its Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a man threw a 20-pound rock through a window of an Iraqi restaurant in Lowell, Massachussetts \u2014 with the motivation behind the act of vandalism still remaining unclear. The Lowell Sun reports that the owner of the restaurant, Leyla Al-Zubaydi, was driven \u201cto tears, and [it] prompted her to question whether the family should close the restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this week, a group of military veterans changed her mind with an act of solidarity. Patrick Scanlon, a Vietnam veteran and a coordinator for Veterans for Peace, organized so many veterans and other supporters to come and patronize the restaurant that they ended up filling every seat \u2014 twice.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLRsRxes-F4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"380\" height=\"287\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/01\/12\/402852\/veterans-flood-iraqi-restaurant-to-show-support-after-rock-thrown-through-its-window\/\">Veterans Flood Iraqi Restaurant To Show Support After Rock Thrown Through Its Window | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a man threw a 20-pound rock through a window of an Iraqi restaurant in Lowell, Massachussetts \u2014 with the motivation behind the act of vandalism still remaining unclear. The Lowell Sun reports that the owner of the restaurant, Leyla Al-Zubaydi, was driven \u201cto tears, and [it] prompted her to question whether the family&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[748,749,750,752,751],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}