{"id":111,"date":"2017-03-14T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T05:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/?p=111"},"modified":"2017-03-15T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:00:52","slug":"weaving-a-new-tapestry-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/weaving-a-new-tapestry-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving a New Tapestry in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A rug adorns the wall of Shir Afghan Wakili\u2019s Westminster, Calif. apartment. Rugs are common decorations in Middle Eastern households, and this one is no exception. However, this rug is uniquely Afghan. Its thread is woven with a pattern of tanks and rockets, a reminder of his home country\u2019s history with war. \u201cThis is what will destroy Afghanistan,\u201d says Shir, as he points toward the lines of advancing tanks. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-132\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Shir-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Shir-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Shir-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Shir-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rug adorns the wall of Shir Afghan Wakili\u2019s Westminster, Calif. apartment. Rugs are common decorations in Middle Eastern households, and this one is no exception. However, this rug is uniquely Afghan. Its thread is woven with a pattern of tanks and rockets, a reminder of his home country\u2019s history with war. \u201cThis is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}