{"id":623,"date":"2011-02-14T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T09:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=623"},"modified":"2011-02-14T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T09:50:39","slug":"what-happened-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"What happened in Egypt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what happened in Egypt? After the last Israeli war, and after the treaty with Israel, the army became redundant militarily and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2011\/02\/10\/133501837\/why-egypts-military-cares-about-home-appliances?ft=1&amp;amp;f=2\">turned to business<\/a>. Mubarak, as army officer and later president, also got into business. No bank or multinational corporation could do business in Egypt without an Egyptian partner or stakeholder, so that the army and people like Mubarak basically cleaned up. Allegedly Mubarak cleaned up to such an extent that he is now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/egypt\/110208\/mubarak-world-richest-man-billionaire\">wealthiest man in the world<\/a>, and this at a time when the average Egyptian is one of the poorest in the world. However, he became the most obvious symbol of a repressive regime, and the people agitated to get rid of him. The regime acquiesced in his removal because if they did not the regime itself would be threatened, business would be threatened. Or did they conspire at his removal in order to get their snouts deeper in the trough? Who knows? And now that he is gone? Business as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what happened in Egypt? After the last Israeli war, and after the treaty with Israel, the army became redundant militarily and turned to business. Mubarak, as army officer and later president, also got into business. No bank or multinational corporation could do business in Egypt without an Egyptian partner or stakeholder, so that the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What happened in Egypt?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}