{"id":10502,"date":"2011-08-30T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T06:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=10502"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T06:37:47","slug":"a-novel-arab-spring-map-not-to-be-taken-too-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/a-novel-arab-spring-map-not-to-be-taken-too-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Arab Spring&#8217; Map: Not to be Taken too Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/arab-spring.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10503\" title=\"The Arab Spring - Hitchhiker's Guide to The Near and Middle East\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/arab-spring-e1314685612627.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/arab-spring-e1314685612627.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/arab-spring-e1314685612627-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>\u2018A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alphadesigner\/5791308632\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">picture\u00a0<\/a>is worth a thousand words\u2019 (even if the author doesn\u2019t know much about Qatar and Abu Dhabi).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hat tip:\u00a0<\/strong>Mike Stephens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID ROBERTS: The author clearly has, how should we put it?, an incomplete knowledge of the region but it&#8217;s an amusing take on recent regional events.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,173,692,82,483,235,60,482],"tags":[202,766,125,191,234,18307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}