{"id":194705,"date":"2008-08-25T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/25\/zimbabwe-something-good-happened-today\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T22:40:00","slug":"zimbabwe-something-good-happened-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/25\/zimbabwe-something-good-happened-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Something Good Happened Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as announced by Mugabe, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7580366.stm\">the Zimbabwean parliament met today<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/voanews.com\/english\/Africa\/2008-08-25-voa2.cfm\">as feared<\/a>, some (2) of the MPs were detained by the police, though one was released later.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, what did happen once they were seated was surprising, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/26\/world\/africa\/26zimbabwe.html?partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Lovemore Moyo, of the MDC Tsvangerai won the election for speaker<\/a> in a secret ballot, 110 to 98, which means that MDC Mutambara voted against Mugabe, as did at least one ZANU-PF member, though <a href=\"http:\/\/africa.reuters.com\/wire\/news\/usnWEA6933.html\">ZANU-PF won the Senate presidency<\/a>, though since most of those members are appointed by Mugabe, or by provincial governors appointed by Mugabe, this came as no surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as announced by Mugabe, the Zimbabwean parliament met today, and as feared, some (2) of the MPs were detained by the police, though one was released later. That being said, what did happen once they were seated was surprising, Lovemore Moyo, of the MDC Tsvangerai won the election for speaker in a secret ballot, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194705"}],"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=194705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}