{"id":29298,"date":"2016-09-06T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=29298"},"modified":"2016-09-06T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:00:45","slug":"afghanistan-garden-of-empire-americas-multibillion-dollar-opium-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=29298","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan, Garden of Empire: America\u2019s Multibillion Dollar Opium Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href='http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/afghanistan-garden-of-empire-americas-multibillion-dollar-opium-harvest\/5324196'>http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/afghanistan-garden-of-empire-americas-multibillion-dollar-opium-harvest\/5324196<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This article was first published by Global Research\u00a0 on February 25, 2013.<br \/>\nExcerpted from Cruel Harvest: US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade (Pluto Press, 2013), by Julien Mercille.<br \/>\nAs Obama proclaims that the US adventure in Afghanistan will draw&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <a href='http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/afghanistan-garden-of-empire-americas-multibillion-dollar-opium-harvest\/5324196'>http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/afghanistan-garden-of-empire-americas-multibillion-dollar-opium-harvest\/5324196<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This article was first published by Global Research\u00a0 on February 25, 2013.<br \/>\nExcerpted from Cruel Harvest: US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade (Pluto Press, 2013), by Julien Mercille.<br \/>\nAs Obama proclaims that the US adventure in Afghanistan will draw&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}