{"id":217,"date":"2009-08-06T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob-ak.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-08-06T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:12:05","slug":"meet-the-ayatollahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Ayatollahs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exellent article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/\">New Statesman<\/a> website about the various ayatollahs in Iran.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in again as president amid further protests, Juan Cole, one of the world\u2019s leading experts on Shia Islam, introduces the senior clerics whose conflicting views are influencing events in Iran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/middle-east\/2009\/08\/iran-ayatollah-khomeini-leader\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exellent article on the New Statesman website about the various ayatollahs in Iran. As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in again as president amid further protests, Juan Cole, one of the world\u2019s leading experts on Shia Islam, introduces the senior clerics whose conflicting views are influencing events in Iran. Read the full post here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}