{"id":185767,"date":"2014-08-19T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/19\/not-the-onion-14\/"},"modified":"2014-08-19T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T01:55:00","slug":"not-the-onion-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/19\/not-the-onion-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Not The Onion*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian government is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/michael-brown-shooting\/egypt-urges-restraint-over-michael-brown-protests-ferguson-n183776\">urging restraint by the police in Ferguson, Missouri<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Egypt on Tuesday urged U.S. authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with racially charged demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri &#8211; echoing language Washington used to caution Egypt as it cracked down on Islamist protesters last year. It is unusual for Egypt to criticize such a major donor. Ties between Washington and Cairo were strained after Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters following the army&#8217;s ousting of freely elected President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To quote Anna Russell, &#8220;I&#8217;m not making this up, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">But it should be.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian government is urging restraint by the police in Ferguson, Missouri: Egypt on Tuesday urged U.S. authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with racially charged demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri &#8211; echoing language Washington used to caution Egypt as it cracked down on Islamist protesters last year. It is unusual for Egypt to criticize such &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,960,1041,986,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-irony","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-middle-east","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185767"}],"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=185767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}