{"id":16390,"date":"2012-03-05T16:58:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T12:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=16390"},"modified":"2012-03-05T16:58:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T12:58:46","slug":"the-syrian-revolution-in-a-single-paragraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/the-syrian-revolution-in-a-single-paragraph\/","title":{"rendered":"The Syrian Revolution In a Single Paragraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/2012\/03\/05\/the-syrian-revolution-in-a-single-paragraph\/syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-answers-journalists-after-a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16391\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16391\" title=\"syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-answers-journalists-after-a\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-answers-journalists-after-a-e1330952271875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-answers-journalists-after-a-e1330952271875.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-answers-journalists-after-a-e1330952271875-370x190.jpg 370w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-answers-journalists-after-a-e1330952271875-270x138.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><strong>This sums up the past year pretty well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBashar has not got the message. I, for example, loved him when he took over. I thought he would be different to his father,\u201d he said. He pointed to a part of his little finger. \u201cIf he had just given us this little bit of freedom, we would have remained quiet. But whenever he slaughters someone from our families he simply increases our desire to kill\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/mar\/04\/escaped-homs-syrian-forces-closed?cat=world&amp;type=article\">him<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS FROM SYRIA: Volumes have been written about the Syrian revolution. Here&#8217;s a concise take on what many Syrians currently feel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":16391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,83,483,60,482,317],"tags":[18330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390"}],"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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}