{"id":1406,"date":"2006-02-22T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/02\/22\/neither-rain-nor-sleet-nor-threat-of-death\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:44","slug":"neither-rain-nor-sleet-nor-threat-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/02\/22\/neither-rain-nor-sleet-nor-threat-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor Threat of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The closest call came when he was stuck in traffic and a group of gunmen walked up to the car in front of him to drag out the driver, kicking and screaming. He watched silently, hoping the gunmen would not take him, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cried when I got back to the office,&#8221; Mr. Mikayel said, pushing his large-lensed glasses farther up his nose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/22\/international\/middleeast\/22mail.html?_r=1&#038;th&#038;emc=th&#038;oref=slogin\">Neither War Nor Bombs Stay These Iraq Couriers<\/a> (New York Times)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closest call came when he was stuck in traffic and a group of gunmen walked up to the car in front of him to drag out the driver, kicking and screaming. He watched silently, hoping the gunmen would not take him, too. &#8220;I cried when I got back to the office,&#8221; Mr. Mikayel said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12329,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/12329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}