{"id":87524,"date":"2026-04-08T07:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87524"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:13:31","slug":"us-journalist-released-after-she-was-kidnapped-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/08\/us-journalist-released-after-she-was-kidnapped-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"US journalist released after she was kidnapped in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA20lYKi.img?w=534&amp;h=301&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Surveillance footage appeared to show the moment Kittleson was kidnapped in Baghdad (AP)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/shelly-kittleson-journalist-kidnapped-iraq-b2950592.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">American journalist Shelly Kittleson<\/a> has been released after she was kidnapped from a Baghdad street corner last week, according to the Trump administration and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/us-journalist-released-after-she-was-kidnapped-in-iraq\/ar-AA20mfWJ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d5fe4af4bd476b82bfe5ad1b43a5ef&amp;ei=26\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>American journalist Shelly Kittleson has been released after she was kidnapped from a Baghdad street corner last week, according to the Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shelly-Kittleson.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87526,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87524\/revisions\/87526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}