{"id":148462,"date":"2018-01-24T01:03:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T06:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148462"},"modified":"2018-01-24T01:03:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T06:03:38","slug":"indonesian-troops-show-off-snake-handling-skills-for-mattis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/24\/indonesian-troops-show-off-snake-handling-skills-for-mattis\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian troops show off snake handling skills for Mattis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_147992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147992\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/384px-James_Mattis_official_photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147992\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/384px-James_Mattis_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"A half-century after the Tet Offensive punctured American hopes of victory in Vietnam, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is visiting the former enemy in search of a different kind of win. (Photo By Monica King - United States Department of Defense, Public Domain)\" width=\"384\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/384px-James_Mattis_official_photo.jpg 384w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/384px-James_Mattis_official_photo-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Defence Secretary Jim Mattis (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=55410241\">Photo By Monica King &#8211; United States Department of Defense, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia &#8212; U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis got an up-close look at Indonesian commandos &#8212; including soldiers walking on fire and breaking bricks with their heads.<\/p>\n<p>The commandos performed for Mattis at the conclusion of a two-day visit in which Mattis expressed interest in closer U.S. contacts with Indonesia special forces.<\/p>\n<p>With music as a backdrop, Mattis looked on in silence as the commandos demonstrated their hostage-rescue skills, snake-handling and hand-to-hand combat training.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Mattis was flying to Hanoi for his first visit to Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia &#8212; U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis got an up-close look at Indonesian commandos &#8212; including soldiers walking on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":147992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16,17],"tags":[262,18056,1911],"class_list":["post-148462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","category-news-w","tag-indonesia","tag-jim-mattis","tag-vietnam","mauthors-robert-burns","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}