{"id":24506,"date":"2011-02-11T06:55:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_egypt_in_chaos_as_leader_refuses_to_go\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T06:55:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T06:55:22","slug":"wsj_egypt_in_chaos_as_leader_refuses_to_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24506","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Egypt in Chaos as Leader Refuses to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak handed power to his vice president but retained his title, a half-measure that confused observers, angered opposition leaders and provoked an uproar from hundreds of thousands of protesters massed in the center of the country&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The move sets up another conflict with the opposition movement, which has called on supporters to gather for a huge protest Friday. Expectations that the president would resign had built through the day, and the immediate reaction to the speech was anger, with protesters chanting &#8220;Leave, leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An Army officer using a loudspeaker tried to calm protesters. &#8220;Let&#8217;s save our energy for tomorrow,&#8221; a man screamed to the crowd. &#8220;Go home and sleep, because tomorrow will be the day of judgment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704132204576136101983949120.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak handed power to his vice president but retained his title, a half-measure that confused observers, angered opposition leaders and provoked an uproar from hundreds of thousands of protesters massed in the center of the country&#8217;s capital.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24506\">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":[40,50,560,203,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24506","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=24506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}