{"id":23861,"date":"2011-01-06T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_egypt_on_alert_as_copts_gather_for_christmas_eve\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T19:02:36","slug":"bbc_egypt_on_alert_as_copts_gather_for_christmas_eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23861","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Egypt on alert as Copts gather for Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coptic Christians are preparing to celebrate Christmas Eve amid tight security after a bomb attack on a church in Egypt in which 23 died.<\/p>\n<p>Armed Egyptian police have been ordered to protect churches where Copts are expected to gather in large numbers.<\/p>\n<p>There have been calls for Muslims to hold vigils outside Coptic churches in a gesture of solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>But some radical Islamist websites have urged more attacks, publishing church addresses in Egypt and Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-12125143\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coptic Christians are preparing to celebrate Christmas Eve amid tight security after a bomb attack on a church in Egypt in which 23 died. Armed Egyptian police have been ordered to protect churches where Copts are expected to gather in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23861\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,411,560,426,203,659,154,155,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}