{"id":53316,"date":"2016-02-12T06:57:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T06:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jayson_caspar_strength_in_weakness_egypt_presidents_apology_spurs_hope\/"},"modified":"2016-02-12T06:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T06:57:05","slug":"jayson_caspar_strength_in_weakness_egypt_presidents_apology_spurs_hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53316","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Caspar: Strength in weakness: Egypt president\u2019s apology spurs hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humble St George\u2019s Church in Belhasa south of Cairo became a home for dogs and goats after its destruction by pro-Morsi supporters during Egypt\u2019s 2011 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s been reopened better than ever \u201d\u201c thanks to a surprise announcement by Egypt\u2019s President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u02dcThis is a beautiful gesture for a new age\u2019, said Bishop Biemen, Head of Crisis Management for the Coptic Orthodox Church. \u201d\u02dcWe have been pampered\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visited the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo on 6 January &#8211; Coptic Christmas Eve &#8211; for the second year running. Amid raucous applause he did the most un-presidential thing: he apologized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapidomedia.com\/egypt-president-apology-spurs-hope\">Read it all<\/a> from Lapido Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humble St George\u2019s Church in Belhasa south of Cairo became a home for dogs and goats after its destruction by pro-Morsi supporters during Egypt\u2019s 2011 revolution. Now it\u2019s been reopened better than ever \u201d\u201c thanks to a surprise announcement by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53316\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,560,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53316","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}