{"id":64520,"date":"2015-02-27T08:34:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64520"},"modified":"2015-02-27T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:34:42","slug":"wp-american-atheist-blogger-hacked-to-death-in-the-street-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64520","title":{"rendered":"WP: American atheist blogger hacked to death in the street in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/02\/27\/american-atheist-blogger-hacked-to-death-in-the-street-in-bangladesh\/?tid=hp_mm&#038;hpid=z3\">WP<\/a>: An American atheist blogger who vocally opposed religious extremism has been hacked to death in a street in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Avijit Roy was a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen who proved a prominent critic of ideological hatred in his native country. He and his wife, Rafida Ahmed, were attacked as they returned from a book fair at Dhaka University in Dhaka, Bangladesh\u2019s capital, as the Associated Press reported. Some outlets reported that the weapons used were machetes; others reported cleavers. Roy died at a hospital after the attack. His wife was seriously injured, losing a finger, but survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WP: An American atheist blogger who vocally opposed religious extremism has been hacked to death in a street in Bangladesh. Avijit Roy was a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen who proved a prominent critic of ideological hatred in his native country. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-islam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64521,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64520\/revisions\/64521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}