{"id":5095,"date":"2011-03-16T08:56:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=4477#comment-18696"},"modified":"2011-03-16T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:56:34","slug":"comment-on-why-bahrain-trumps-dubai-%e2%80%93-demographics-by-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/middle-east-life\/middle-east-entertainment-analysis\/comment-on-why-bahrain-trumps-dubai-%e2%80%93-demographics-by-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on Why Bahrain Trumps Dubai \u2013 Demographics by David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not very constructive Obaid, although clearly the damage done to bahrain&#8217;s reputation is now aof a level of magnitude worse than it was. Even should the status quo remain, Bahrain is now going to be a simmering mass of anger for a long time to come, and the shia population is going to feel even more oppressed. <\/p>\n<p>I do not understand why the army moved in, it seemed something positive was coming out of the troubles, an explosion of creativity. Now the future of the country looks much more uncertain, even if the state clamps down and managesnto exert it&#8217;s authority.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain has a long road ahead of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not very constructive Obaid, although clearly the damage done to bahrain&#8217;s reputation is now aof a level of magnitude worse than it was. Even should the status quo remain, Bahrain is now going to be a simmering mass of anger for a long time to come, and the shia population is going to feel even more oppressed. <\/p>\n<p>I do not understand why the army moved in, it seemed something positive was coming out of the troubles, an explosion of creativity. Now the future of the country looks much more uncertain, even if the state clamps down and managesnto exert it&#8217;s authority.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain has a long road ahead of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[982,18303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095"}],"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\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}