{"id":1492,"date":"2011-03-27T09:17:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2011-03-27T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:18:31","slug":"how-one-fruit-vendor-has-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1492","title":{"rendered":"How One Fruit Vendor Changed the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Post has a must-read\u00a0<a title=\"In Tunisia, Act of One Fruit Vendor Unleashes Wave of Revolution Through Arab World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/in-tunisia-act-of-one-fruit-vendor-sparks-wave-of-revolution-through-arab-world\/2011\/03\/16\/AFjfsueB_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> about how Mohammed Bouazizi ignited &#8212; literally &#8212; the wave of political unrest in the Arab World:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Bouazizi returned to the market and told his fellow vendors he would let the world know how unfairly they were being treated, how corrupt the system was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He would set himself ablaze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8216;We thought he was just talking,&#8217; said Hassan Tili, another vendor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Post has a must-read\u00a0article about how Mohammed Bouazizi ignited &#8212; literally &#8212; the wave of political unrest in the Arab World:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-o4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}