{"id":187913,"date":"2011-01-28T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/28\/yes-what-is-going-on-in-egypt-is-a-big-deal\/"},"modified":"2011-01-28T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:55:00","slug":"yes-what-is-going-on-in-egypt-is-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/28\/yes-what-is-going-on-in-egypt-is-a-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, What is Going On in Egypt is a Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img407.imageshack.us\/img407\/8775\/2320888083858543.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img407.imageshack.us\/img407\/8775\/2320888083858543.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Received via email<\/span><\/div>\n<p>This could just kind of fizzle out, like 1848 did in Europe, but this is a rather graphic illustration of the breadth and scope of the protests.<\/p>\n<p>Note that there are a number of factors that make this much more significant than Tunisia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unlike Tunisia, the population is almost exclusively, and strongly Arab (Tunisia has significant Berber influences).<\/li>\n<li>Egypt has the largest population of any Arab nation in the world, having almost 30% of the world&#8217;s Arab population.<\/li>\n<li>It has been a center of Arab nationalism and Islamic thought for hundreds of years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even in the best case, I don&#8217;t imagine that this will result&nbsp; in the spontaneous creation of a modern democracy with civil rights, but I do think that any changes would be an improvement over the current corrupt and brutal status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received via email This could just kind of fizzle out, like 1848 did in Europe, but this is a rather graphic illustration of the breadth and scope of the protests. Note that there are a number of factors that make this much more significant than Tunisia: Unlike Tunisia, the population is almost exclusively, and strongly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,986,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-middle-east","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187913"}],"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=187913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}