{"id":114,"date":"2008-09-03T21:08:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2008-09-03T21:08:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:08:31","slug":"wall-street-journal-op-ed-the-path-to-hysteria-by-cyrus-nowrasteh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: The Path to Hysteria by Cyrus Nowrasteh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"byl\"><span class=\"aTime\">Monday, September 18, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nI am neither an activist, politician or partisan, nor an ideologue of any stripe. What I am is a writer who takes his job very seriously, as do most of my colleagues: Also, one who recently took on the most distressing and important story it will ever fall to me to tell. I considered it a privilege when asked to write the script for \u201cThe Path to 9\/11.\u201d I felt duty-bound from the outset to focus on a single goal\u2013to represent our recent pre-9\/11 history as the evidence revealed it to be. The American people deserve to know that history: They have paid for it in blood. Like all Americans, I wish it were not so. I wish there were no terrorists. I wish there had been no 9\/11. I wish we could squabble among ourselves in assured security. But wishes avail nothing. <a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/?page_id=82\" target=\"_self\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, September 18, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT\u00a0<br \/>\nI am neither an activist, politician or partisan, nor an ideologue of any stripe. What I am is a writer who takes his job &hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/?p=114\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: The Path to Hysteria by Cyrus Nowrasteh<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}