{"id":66785,"date":"2012-11-11T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/?p=58119"},"modified":"2015-04-21T06:44:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:44:14","slug":"the-jesus-kissed-war-fringed-love-swirled-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2012\/11\/11\/the-jesus-kissed-war-fringed-love-swirled-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE JESUS-KISSED, WAR-FRINGED, LOVE-SWIRLED RANGERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Outside Magazine<\/address>\n<address>November 2012<\/address>\n<h1>THE JESUS-KISSED, WAR-FRINGED, LOVE-SWIRLED RANGERS<\/h1>\n<address>by Adam Skolnick<\/address>\n<p>On a sticky 90-degree day last November, the sun blazed high over a village in northern Karen, a province of 7.5 million people in southeastern Myanmar. At the edge of a riverside clearing, farmers dressed in rags, sweaty and soiled, trickled home from the fields to their thatched-bamboo huts for lunch. They chatted and laughed freely\u2014until a mortar exploded 50 feet away.<\/p>\n<p>Within seconds men in Myanmar Army uniforms strafed the village with semi-automatic gunfire. Shouting soldiers dragged women to the ground and held pistols to the men\u2019s heads. The platoon leader wandered from hut to hut, using a torch to ignite grass roofs.<\/p>\n<p>Then something strange happened. A young blond girl\u2014dressed in black and wearing flip-flops, her face streaked with grease\u2014suddenly leaped to the top of a boulder, holding a bow and arrow. Narrowing her eyes, she pulled back and fired.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/adventure-travel\/asia\/myanmar\/The-Jesus-Kissed-War-Fringed-Love-Swirled-Rangers.html?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/adventure-travel\/asia\/myanmar\/The-Jesus-Kissed-War-Fringed-Love-Swirled-Rangers.html<\/a><\/p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nvar post=eval({\"id\":66785,\"title\":\"THE JESUS-KISSED, WAR-FRINGED, LOVE-SWIRLED RANGERS\",\"subject\":\"FBR: THE JESUS-KISSED, WAR-FRINGED, LOVE-SWIRLED RANGERS\",\"admin_email\":\"info@freeburmarangers.org\",\"admin_name\":\"FBR\"});\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside Magazine November 2012 THE JESUS-KISSED, WAR-FRINGED, LOVE-SWIRLED RANGERS by Adam Skolnick On a sticky 90-degree day last November, the sun blazed high over a village in northern Karen, a province of 7.5 million people in southeastern Myanmar. At the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2012\/11\/11\/the-jesus-kissed-war-fringed-love-swirled-rangers\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.7.8","language":"my","enabled_languages":["en","my"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"my":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67043,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66785\/revisions\/67043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}