{"id":2230,"date":"2010-09-13T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T12:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2010-09-13T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T12:54:35","slug":"how_is_this_different_from_kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"How Is This Different From Kidnapping ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/nation\/102722189.html\">Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/a>&nbsp;posted a story on Sarah Shourd, the&nbsp;American girl held prisoner in Iran for wandering over the Iranian border while hiking.&nbsp; The Iranians had said she would be freed this past weekend, but as of now, she is still being held prisoner.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article states:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The lawyer of an American woman cleared for release from an Iranian prison said Monday he is still waiting for word that the $500,000 bail has been paid.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Why are they charging $500,000 bail when they are saying they are releasing her on humanitarian grounds because she has had health problems?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Pew polling group released a poll in August showing that only 30 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Islam, down from 41 percent in 2005.&nbsp; It&#8217;s actions like those of the Iranian government that are responsible for the less favorable view.&nbsp; Sarah was one of three hikers in an area where the border of Iran is not clearly marked.&nbsp; The hikers wandered across the border and have been in prison in Iran ever since.&nbsp; The fact that Iran is demanding $500,000 for her release sounds more like a kidnapping than an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Minneapolis Star Tribune&nbsp;posted a story on Sarah Shourd, the&nbsp;American girl held prisoner in Iran for wandering over the Iranian border while hiking.&nbsp; The Iranians had said she would be freed this past weekend, but as of now, she is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2230\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}