{"id":34114,"date":"2012-08-18T21:05:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T21:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_egypts_new_leader_struggles_to_fulfill_big_promises\/"},"modified":"2012-08-18T21:05:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T21:05:50","slug":"npr_egypts_new_leader_struggles_to_fulfill_big_promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34114","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Egypt&#39;s New Leader Struggles To Fulfill Big Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s new Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, has made sweeping promises to the Egyptian people, saying he&#8217;ll improve the quality of their lives during his first 100 days in office.<\/p>\n<p>Morsi has been busy on several fronts, but he has only a few weeks left to fulfill those big pledges.<\/p>\n<p>His promises have come in nightly radio broadcasts during the holy month of Ramadan. A decent loaf of bread is a demand for us all, he declared in one of those broadcasts, saying subsidized bread will be more widely available and of better quality.<\/p>\n<p>But in Sayed Abdel Moneim&#8217;s ramshackle, one-room home in Cairo&#8217;s working-class district of Shubra el Kheima, bread, he says, is just one small issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/18\/159021933\/egypts-new-leader-struggles-to-fulfill-big-promises\">Read (or better listen to) it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s new Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, has made sweeping promises to the Egyptian people, saying he&#8217;ll improve the quality of their lives during his first 100 days in office. Morsi has been busy on several fronts, but he has only<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34114\">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":[39,40,50,149,560,133,597,203,151,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-egypt","category-history","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114","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=34114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}