{"id":997,"date":"2011-02-10T13:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=997"},"modified":"2011-02-10T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:09:39","slug":"yalla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2011\/02\/10\/yalla\/","title":{"rendered":"Yalla!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 19 hours GMT, and <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/watch_now\/\">Al Jazeera is covering live<\/a> what is sure to be one of the great events of the early 21st century. \u00a0What amazing coverage. I had given up on journalism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After seventeen days of protest, excitement is growing.&#8221;\u00a0And as far as you can see, they tell us, every street leading into Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square is packed, and still the people are arriving.<\/p>\n<p>The cheering and clapping and whistling of the crowd sounds like a great football game. From this distance you can hear the joy in their shouts. And the energy. And the anticipation. And the hope.\u00a0They are waiting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yalla! Yalla!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bring him on. Let&#8217;s hear him say he&#8217;ll leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 19 hours GMT, and Al Jazeera is covering live what is sure to be one of the great events of the early 21st century. \u00a0What amazing coverage. I had given up on journalism. &#8220;After seventeen days of protest, excitement is growing.&#8221;\u00a0And as far as you can see, they tell us, every street leading into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}