{"id":31965,"date":"2012-10-24T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=31965"},"modified":"2012-10-24T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:44:11","slug":"reuters-kuwait-protests-challenge-ruling-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/10\/24\/reuters-kuwait-protests-challenge-ruling-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Kuwait protests challenge ruling family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, Oct 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Kuwait risks sliding into Arab Spring-style protests over a forthcoming election that has polarised opinion in the Gulf Arab state and posed an unprecedented challenge to the authority of the once revered emir, a close Western ally.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait saw some of the worst violence in its recent history when tens of thousands of demonstrators &#8211; out of a native population of just 1.2 million &#8211; protested this week at changes to election laws they see as an attempt to limit the prospects for the opposition at the parliamentary vote on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/10\/24\/kuwait-politics-idUSL5E8LM8JK20121024\" title=\"kuwait protests\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, Oct 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Kuwait risks sliding into Arab Spring-style protests over a forthcoming election that has polarised opinion in the Gulf Arab state and posed an unprecedented challenge to the authority of the once revered emir, a close Western ally. Kuwait saw some of the worst violence in its recent history when tens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31968,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965\/revisions\/31968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}