{"id":5936,"date":"2011-06-13T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2011-06-13T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T08:44:10","slug":"how-long-can-lebanon-manage-without-a-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5936","title":{"rendered":"How long can Lebanon manage without a government?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The short answer is: at least five months. Najib Mikati was appointed as Lebanon&#8217;s prime minister-designate on 25  January 2011. He was asked to form a new government after winning the  support of a majority of members of parliament, but he still not managed to win agreement between the parties &#8211; yet one more unstable element in the swirling change of the Middle East.\u00a0 More information <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/country_profiles\/791071.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short answer is: at least five months. Najib Mikati was appointed as Lebanon&#8217;s prime minister-designate on 25 January 2011. He was asked to form a new government after winning the support of a majority of members of parliament, but he still not managed to win agreement between the parties &#8211; yet one more unstable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5938,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}