{"id":8805,"date":"2013-07-01T04:32:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T04:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/16-teens-killed-in-bombing-at-iraq-football-pitch\/"},"modified":"2013-07-01T04:32:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T04:32:02","slug":"16-teens-killed-in-bombing-at-iraq-football-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/16-teens-killed-in-bombing-at-iraq-football-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Teens Killed in Bombing at Iraq Football Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people have been killed in a blast while playing football in Baghdad, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Iraqis playing and watching the game.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Sunday struck the Nahrawan neighbourhood of southeast Baghdad at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) and wounded 25 others.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the casualties were boys under the age of 16, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The blast is the latest in a string of attacks targeting football pitches and cafes broadcasting matches in this football-mad country where Iraqis closely follow not only the national team, but also an array of other international and club competitions.<\/p>\n<p>{agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people have been killed in a blast while playing football in Baghdad, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Iraqis playing and watching the game. The attack on Sunday struck the Nahrawan neighbourhood of southeast Baghdad at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) and wounded 25 others. Most of the casualties were boys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8805"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8805"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}