{"id":24256,"date":"2011-01-29T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mubarak_orders_ministers_to_resign_but_backs_armed_response_to_egypt_protes\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T04:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T04:00:01","slug":"mubarak_orders_ministers_to_resign_but_backs_armed_response_to_egypt_protes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24256","title":{"rendered":"Mubarak Orders Ministers to Resign but Backs Armed Response to Egypt Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt appeared on television late Friday night and ordered his government to resign, but backed his security forces\u2019 attempts to contain the surging unrest around the country that has shaken his 28-year authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n<p>He did not offer to step down himself and spent much of the short speech explaining the need for stability, saying that while he was \u201con the side of freedom,\u201d\u009d his job was to protect the nation from chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Several hours earlier, he had ordered the military into the streets to reinforce police struggling to contain riots by tens of thousands of Egyptians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/29\/world\/middleeast\/29unrest.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt appeared on television late Friday night and ordered his government to resign, but backed his security forces\u2019 attempts to contain the surging unrest around the country that has shaken his 28-year authoritarian rule. He did<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24256\">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":[39,40,50,560,203,151,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24256","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=24256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}