{"id":22936,"date":"2012-10-24T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T12:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=22936"},"modified":"2012-10-24T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T12:49:05","slug":"insulting-the-sultan-in-oman-a-balanced-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/insulting-the-sultan-in-oman-a-balanced-view\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Insulting the Sultan in Oman&#8217;:  A Balanced View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/2012\/10\/insulting-the-sultan-in-oman-a-balanced-view\/sultan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22937\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22937\" title=\"sultan\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sultan-e1351082905201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sultan-e1351082905201.jpg 635w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sultan-e1351082905201-634x333.jpg 634w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sultan-e1351082905201-570x300.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy has published a rather interesting and somewhat\u00a0balanced (in my opinion)\u00a0piece called <a href=\"http:\/\/mideast.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2012\/10\/19\/insulting_the_sultan_in_oman?fb_action_ids=3874577618665&amp;fb_action_types=og.likes&amp;fb_source=other_multiline&amp;action_object_map=%7B%223874577618665%22%3A436130349767394%7D&amp;action_type_map=%7B%223874577618665%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&amp;action_ref_map=%5B%5D\"><strong>Insulting the Sultan in Oman<\/strong><\/a>. I highly recommend reading it before it is quietly removed off the Omani version of the world wide web. I&#8217;m not entirely sure whether the busy creatures monitoring the internet in Oman will appreciate reading the F-bomb and the Sultan in the same sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHOFARI GUCCI:  It&#8217;s well worth reading a just released article by &#8216;Foreign Policy&#8217; on what&#8217;s currently happening in Oman.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":22937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,173,83,369,60,482],"tags":[18338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22936"}],"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\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}