{"id":32,"date":"2003-07-14T04:45:45","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T08:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=32"},"modified":"2003-07-14T04:45:45","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T08:45:45","slug":"iraqi-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/14\/international\/worldspecial\/14IRAQ.html\">Excerpt<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><i>As its first act today, the Council abolished six national holidays that had been celebrated under Mr. Hussein&#8217;s 24-year rule and created a new national day.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the banned holidays were fast approaching, adding to the urgency of forming a government, Iraqis said. Monday, July 14, is the anniversary of the 1958 overthrow of the monarchy, and July 17 is the anniversary of the 1968 coup that brought Mr. Hussein&#8217;s Baath Party to power.<\/p>\n<p>In their place, the Council declared April 9, the day that Baghdad fell to allied forces as Mr. Hussein went into hiding, the national day of a new Iraqi state.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Is it wise to abolish the holiday celebrating the fall of the British monarchy?  <\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t the U.S.-led coalition forces prove themselves to be &#8216;liberators&#8217; before declaring a national holiday celebrating the occupation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Excerpt] As its first act today, the Council abolished six national holidays that had been celebrated under Mr. Hussein&#8217;s 24-year rule and created a new national day. Two of the banned holidays were fast approaching, adding to the urgency of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=32\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}