{"id":14477,"date":"2013-07-06T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14477"},"modified":"2013-07-06T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:02:57","slug":"weekend-freedom-question-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/06\/weekend-freedom-question-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend freedom question: Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2013\/07\/06\/weekend-freedom-question-egypt\/egyptianmessage_0713\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/EgyptianMessage_0713-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"EgyptianMessage_0713\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/n7Kh7qu\" target=\"_blank\">Source.<\/a> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy<\/a>. Comments at the source are well worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>I usually don&#8217;t ask political questions. But signs are that this &#8220;interesting&#8221; week in Egypt will have repercussions that are long-term, widespread, and personal. So &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Was it a coup, a revolution &#8212; or simply a restoration of the revolution that began in Tahrir Square in the Arab Spring? What will the repercussions be &#8212; for U.S. policy, for Obama, and for freedom anywhere?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government has a history of &#8220;backing the wrong horse.&#8221; Nothing new there. But the potential consequences seem unusually large this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source. Via Wendy. Comments at the source are well worth reading. I usually don&#8217;t ask political questions. But signs are that this &#8220;interesting&#8221; week in Egypt will have repercussions that are long-term, widespread, and personal. So &#8230; Was it a coup, a revolution &#8212; or simply a restoration of the revolution that began in Tahrir Square in the Arab Spring? What will the repercussions be &#8212; for U.S. policy, for Obama, and for freedom anywhere? The U.S. government has a history of &#8220;backing the wrong horse.&#8221; Nothing new there. But the potential consequences seem unusually large this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-resistance","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}