{"id":302,"date":"2003-06-01T08:41:02","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T15:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2003-06-01T08:41:02","modified_gmt":"2003-06-01T15:41:02","slug":"an-award-for-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/06\/an-award-for-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"An Award for acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/wesun\/index.html\">NPR <\/a>this morning about a woman who was trying to save her sons from Saddam Hussien.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just like Anne Frank, really. Except the guys make it.<\/p>\n<p>This mother of her two sons put on a huge act for the soldiers who came to her house to arrest her sons She would demand to know where they were.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, she knew they were right upstairs. All the soldiers had to do was go look. But she acted so convincingly that the soldiers never did seach.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, she went down to THEIR station to demand to know where they were.<\/p>\n<p>To get rid of her, they finally told her that the men had been executed.<\/p>\n<p>For 20 years, these men did not leave their home&#8217;s upstairs. Two decades.<\/p>\n<p>What a mother~! She saved her sons.<\/p>\n<p>NPR interviewed the sons and the mother. The mother told them it was difficult to act for the soldiers when she knew they could put her to death.<\/p>\n<p>But she also said she was pretty good at acting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard on NPR this morning about a woman who was trying to save her sons from Saddam Hussien. It&#8217;s just like Anne Frank, really. Except the guys make it. This mother of her two sons put on a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/06\/an-award-for-acting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/06\/an-award-for-acting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}