{"id":24255,"date":"2011-01-29T02:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T02:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_roger_hardy-analysis_why_egypt_matters\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T02:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T02:28:03","slug":"bbc_roger_hardy-analysis_why_egypt_matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24255","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Roger Hardy&#8211;Analysis: Why Egypt matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Egyptian unrest turns into an Egyptian revolution, the implications for the Arab world &#8211; and for Western policy in the Middle East &#8211; will be immense.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt matters, in a way that tiny Tunisia &#8211; key catalyst that it has been in the current wave of protest &#8211; does not.<\/p>\n<p>It matters because its destiny affects, in a range of ways, not only Arab interests but Israeli, Iranian and Western interests, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-12311889\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Egyptian unrest turns into an Egyptian revolution, the implications for the Arab world &#8211; and for Western policy in the Middle East &#8211; will be immense. Egypt matters, in a way that tiny Tunisia &#8211; key catalyst that it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24255\">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":[40,50,149,560,144,203,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-egypt","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24255","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=24255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}