{"id":638,"date":"2013-07-06T18:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T22:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2013-07-06T18:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T22:26:40","slug":"egypt-overthrown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/egypt-overthrown\/","title":{"rendered":"In Egypt, Have the People Overthrown Themselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This week&#8217;s blog post is at The Huffington Post<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"In Egypt, Have the People Overthrown Themselves?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/in-egypt-the-people-have-_b_3547444.html\" target=\"_blank\">In Egypt, Have the People Overthrown Themselves?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Many of the same protestors who two and a half years ago risked their lives to chant <em>ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam<\/em> (the people want to overthrow the regime) were now calling for immediate political change in a democratic system <em>outside of the electoral process<\/em> they had fought so hard to achieve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read the article <a title=\"In Egypt, Have the People Overthrown Themselves?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/in-egypt-the-people-have-_b_3547444.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please leave your comments on The Huffington Post website below the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s blog post is at The Huffington Post In Egypt, Have the People Overthrown Themselves? 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