{"id":4285,"date":"2012-07-19T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinkramer.org\/sandbox\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2012-07-19T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T18:44:00","slug":"president-bashar-will-see-you-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2012\/07\/president-bashar-will-see-you-now\/","title":{"rendered":"President Bashar will see you now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports say that the fighting in Damascus is now &#8220;visible from the Presidential Palace,&#8221; which has prompted me to take you, my reader, on an exclusive tour of it. If the violence culminates in a revolution, the fall of the Presidential Palace would symbolize the endgame, so seizing it will become a prime objective. (But I wouldn&#8217;t expect a last stand there: that would take place far away, in the Alawite regions in the north of the country.)<\/p>\n<p>So climb in the official limo, ascend the mountain, traverse the long boulevard, and enter the inner sanctum of the Assad regime! All you have to do is click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinkramer.org\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bashar2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Oh, you&#8217;re alarmed by that gunfire echoing down the marble-clad corridors? Pay no mind! The people love their leader!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4321\" title=\"People's Palace, Shaab Palace, Damascus\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martinkramer.org\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Shaab.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/files\/2012\/07\/Shaab.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/files\/2012\/07\/Shaab-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go on an exclusive (virtual) tour of the Presidential Palace in Damascus, before it\u2019s too late. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2012\/07\/president-bashar-will-see-you-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[2386],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}