{"id":184249,"date":"2012-06-19T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/19\/new-protests-at-tahrir-square\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T01:17:00","slug":"new-protests-at-tahrir-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/19\/new-protests-at-tahrir-square\/","title":{"rendered":"New Protests at Tahrir Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-18510201\">still don&#8217;;t expect any pro-democracy actions to be taken by our government<\/a>, because, after all, the Egyptians buy our weapons, not Russian weapons:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Tens of thousands have gathered in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square to protest against a decision by the ruling military council to assume new powers.<\/p>\n<p>The protests were called by the Muslim Brotherhood, as it claims its candidate won last weekend&#8217;s presidential poll.<\/p>\n<p>His rival, former PM Ahmed Shafiq, also says he has won.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I still don&#8217;;t expect any pro-democracy actions to be taken by our government, because, after all, the Egyptians buy our weapons, not Russian weapons: Tens of thousands have gathered in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square to protest against a decision by the ruling military council to assume new powers. The protests were called by the Muslim &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1000,986,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-elections","category-middle-east","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184249"}],"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=184249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}