{"id":66798,"date":"2015-11-23T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=66798"},"modified":"2015-11-23T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T09:45:01","slug":"syrias-war-a-5-minute-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/11\/syrias-war-a-5-minute-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria&#8217;s War: A 5-Minute History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To understand the bloody, convoluted war happening inside and outside of Syria&#8217;s borders, you need to watch this. It is a most instructive video clip &#8211; less than 5 minutes &#8211; explaining what ISIS is, who its backers are, and in what context it was born and operates.<\/p>\n<p><em>The clip has received nearly 50 million views\/watches since 14 Oct 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-66798-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Syrias-war-A-5-minute-history-10153737513773410.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Syrias-war-A-5-minute-history-10153737513773410.mp4\" >https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Syrias-war-A-5-minute-history-10153737513773410.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Go to Original: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ezraklein\/videos\/10153737513773410\" >https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ezraklein\/videos\/10153737513773410<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand the bloody, convoluted war happening inside and outside of Syria&#8217;s borders, you need to watch this. It is a most instructive video clip &#8211; less than 5 minutes &#8211; explaining what ISIS is, who its backers are, and in what context it was born and operates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}