{"id":24437,"date":"2011-02-08T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_south_sudan_backs_independence\/"},"modified":"2011-02-08T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:30:21","slug":"bbc_south_sudan_backs_independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24437","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) It is Official&#8211;South Sudan backs independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission announced in Khartoum that 98.83% of the voters had backed independence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those who voted for unity were 44,888, that is, 1.17%. Those who voted for separation were 3,792,518, that is, 98.83%,&#8221; commission head Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-12379431\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission announced in Khartoum that 98.83% of the voters had backed independence. &#8220;Those who voted for unity were 44,888, that is, 1.17%. Those who voted for separation were 3,792,518, that is, 98.83%,&#8221; commission head<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24437\">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":[40,50,202,151,346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-politics-in-general","category-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437","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=24437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}