{"id":34012,"date":"2012-08-13T00:46:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/egyptian_defence_chief_hussein_tantawi_ousted_in_surprise_shakeup\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T00:46:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:46:13","slug":"egyptian_defence_chief_hussein_tantawi_ousted_in_surprise_shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34012","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Egyptian defence chief Hussein Tantawi ousted in surprise shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, has dismissed his military chief as part of a sweeping set of decisions that includes the appointment of a vice-president and the rescinding of a military order that curbed presidential powers.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential spokesman Yasser Ali announced the retirement of Hussein Tantawi, head of the armed forces, and the chief of staff, Sami Anan. They have been appointed as advisers to Morsi.<\/p>\n<p>The president also cancelled the complementary constitutional declaration issued by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), announced days before he was declared the victor in June&#8217;s elections. The addendum had curbed presidential power and kept much of it in the hands of the military council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/aug\/12\/egyptian-defence-chief-ousted-shakeup?newsfeed=true\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, has dismissed his military chief as part of a sweeping set of decisions that includes the appointment of a vice-president and the rescinding of a military order that curbed presidential powers. Presidential spokesman Yasser Ali<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34012\">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":[40,50,143,560,203,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34012","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=34012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}