{"id":2328,"date":"2015-03-12T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:09:55","slug":"why-isis-beheading-victims-appeared-so-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"Why ISIS beheading victims appeared so calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always suspected this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/mar\/10\/isis-tricked-victims-into-appearing-calm-with-beheading-rehearsals?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\"> Isis tricked victims into appearing calm with beheading rehearsals. Islamic State videos featuring \u2018Jihadi John\u2019 Mohammed Emwazi were preceded by mock run of killing videos in which they were unharmed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always suspected this. Isis tricked victims into appearing calm with beheading rehearsals. Islamic State videos featuring \u2018Jihadi John\u2019 Mohammed Emwazi were preceded by mock run of killing videos in which they were unharmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8231,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}