{"id":5810,"date":"2011-02-11T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2011-02-11T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:09:15","slug":"hosni-mubarak-resigns-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/02\/11\/hosni-mubarak-resigns-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosni Mubarak Resigns As President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hosni Mubarak Resigns As President<\/strong><\/a> on Al Jazeera has video and text.<\/p>\n

At the top of the story they say:<\/p>\n

Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces.<\/p>\n

Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that the president was “waiving” his office, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

Suleiman’s short statement was received with a roar of approval and by celebratory chanting and flag-waving from a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, as well by pro-democracy campaigners who attended protests across the country on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the bottom of the story they say:<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a> read out on state television at midday on Friday, the military announced that it would lift a 30-year-old emergency law<\/a> but only “as soon as the current circumstances end”.<\/p>\n

The military said it would also guarantee changes to the constitution as well as a free and fair election, and it called for normal business activity to resume.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Tahrir Square said people there were hugely disappointed with that army statement, and had vowed to take the protests to “a last and final stage”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hosni Mubarak Resigns As President on Al Jazeera has video and text. At the top of the story they say: Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces. Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that the president was “waiving” his office, and had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5812,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions\/5812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}