{"id":184229,"date":"2012-06-26T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/26\/well-this-is-a-surprise-2\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T00:01:00","slug":"well-this-is-a-surprise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/26\/well-this-is-a-surprise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, This is a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, I am surprised that Egyptian President-Elect Mohamed Morsi has announced that he will <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2012\/06\/26\/world\/meast\/egypt-politics\/\">appointing a woman and a Christian to vice-presidency positions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Egypt&#8217;s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, will appoint a woman as one of his vice presidents and a Christian as another, his policy adviser told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time in Egyptian history &#8212; not just modern but in all Egyptian history &#8212; a woman will take that position,&#8221; Ahmed Deif told CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour on Monday. &#8220;And it&#8217;s not just a vice president who will represent a certain agenda and sect, but a vice president who is powerful and empowered and will be taking care of critical advising within the presidential Cabinet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that a deal has been cut between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, because we also saw the military&#8217;s power to make warrantless detentions rolled back.<\/p>\n<p>Some sorts of reassurances must have been made. <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, I am surprised that Egyptian President-Elect Mohamed Morsi has announced that he will appointing a woman and a Christian to vice-presidency positions: Egypt&#8217;s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, will appoint a woman as one of his vice presidents and a Christian as another, his policy adviser told CNN. &#8220;For the first time in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,986,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-middle-east","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}