{"id":25989,"date":"2013-08-20T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T16:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25989"},"modified":"2013-08-20T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T16:52:36","slug":"bashar-the-vampire-slayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25989","title":{"rendered":"Bashar the Vampire-Slayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; pop messianism, Syria, 2013 ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Bashar-the-Vampire-Slayer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Bashar-the-Vampire-Slayer.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Bashar the Vampire Slayer\" width=\"605\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Bashar-the-Vampire-Slayer.png 605w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Bashar-the-Vampire-Slayer-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The caption for the <strong>Bashar al-Assad<\/strong> image reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Bashar the Wahhabi Slayer [ image ] Has killed more than 40,000 Wahhabi terrorists who came from all over the world to destroy Syria<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and <strong>Phillip Smyth<\/strong>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhillipSmyth\/status\/369155221835902976\">tweeted it<\/a>, commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This photo has been uploaded onto many pro-#Assad &#038; pro-Shia (in #Syria) militia pages. Note how dead are characterized <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>** <\/p>\n<p><em>How the dead are characterized?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why, as Wahhabi terrorists, explicitly &#8212; and implicitly as vampires.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, I&#8217;d argue (broad strokes) that &#8220;Wahhabi terrorists&#8221; is directed at the conscious mind, and &#8220;vampires&#8221; at the emotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; pop messianism, Syria, 2013 ] . The caption for the Bashar al-Assad image reads: Bashar the Wahhabi Slayer [ image ] Has killed more than 40,000 Wahhabi terrorists who came from all over the world to destroy Syria and Phillip Smyth, who tweeted it, commented: This photo has been uploaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,111,462,875,473,687,440,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-emotion","category-metacognition","category-metaphor","category-propaganda","category-specs","category-syria","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25989"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26082,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25989\/revisions\/26082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}