{"id":842,"date":"2016-04-27T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T06:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2016-04-27T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T06:05:37","slug":"new-york-times-review-april-24-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2016\/04\/27\/new-york-times-review-april-24-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times review, April 24, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"headline\" class=\"headline\"><strong>Review: In \u2018Pumpkinflowers,\u2019 a New Style of Middle East Combat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"263\" data-total-count=\"263\"><strong>By Jennifer Senior, Books of the Times<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"263\" data-total-count=\"263\">During the 1990s, Matti Friedman and his fellow Israeli soldiers fought in a string of conflicts that never collectively earned a name. These battles existed in historical parentheses, wedged between Israel\u2019s first Lebanon War, in 1982, and its second, in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"444\" data-total-count=\"707\">But that didn\u2019t make the conflict any less real. At the time, Israel was embroiled in an endless, lethal sequence of skirmishes in southern Lebanon, hoping to secure the border against incursions by Hezbollah. In \u201cPumpkinflowers: A Soldier\u2019s Story\u201d Mr. Friedman has written a top-notch account of this under-analyzed war, persuasively arguing that it heralded a new style of combat in the Middle East, though no one knew it at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"444\" data-total-count=\"707\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/25\/books\/review-in-pumpkinflowers-a-new-style-of-middle-east-combat.html?_r=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review: In \u2018Pumpkinflowers,\u2019 a New Style of Middle East Combat By Jennifer Senior, Books of the Times During the 1990s, Matti Friedman and his fellow Israeli soldiers fought in a string of conflicts that never collectively earned a name. These battles existed in historical parentheses, wedged between Israel\u2019s first Lebanon War, in 1982, and its second, in 2006. But that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}