{"id":297,"date":"2005-02-28T02:29:33","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2005-02-28T02:29:33","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T08:29:33","slug":"the-cedar-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2005\/02\/the-cedar-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cedar Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI am very excited about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050228.wxmideast-syria28\/BNStory\/International\/\">the happenings in Lebanon<\/a> (or the Lebanon, for those old-school types out there).  Despite a government order banning protests and telling the military and police &#8220;to take all necessary steps to preserve security and order and prevent demonstrations and gatherings&#8221;, thousands of people have thronged to the center of Beirut, demanding the government resign and the Syrian army withdraw from the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m hoping we&#8217;re seeing yet another people&#8217;s revolution. The Czechs&#8217; was Velvet, Georgians&#8217; was Rose, Ukraines&#8217; was Orange&#8230;I propose calling this the Cedar Revolution. (I&#8217;ve already submitted it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/\">Fark<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very excited about the happenings in Lebanon (or the Lebanon, for those old-school types out there). Despite a government order banning protests and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-4N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}