{"id":20429,"date":"2012-06-21T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T04:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=20429"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T06:20:39","slug":"has-egypts-revolution-been-hijacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/multimeda\/middle-east-videos\/has-egypts-revolution-been-hijacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Egypt&#8217;s Revolution Been Hijacked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Supreme Military Council, SCAF has issued a series of amendments to its own Constitutional Declaration that effectively limit the powers of the country&#8217;s incoming president, and many would argue, cement the authority of the army generals in this post-Mubarak era.<\/p>\n<p>SCAF also seeks to control the drafting of Egypt&#8217;s new consitution.<\/p>\n<p>The once all-powerful position of president has been made largely ceremonial and the move to civilian rule has been put on hold in the interests of what the military calls &#8220;national stability&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO, AL JAZEERA:  Egypt&#8217;s army, the SCAF, has amended the constitution to retain control and make the President&#8217;s largely ceremonial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,76],"tags":[982,125,18300,1808,929,1100,1174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20429"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26525,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20429\/revisions\/26525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}