{"id":730,"date":"2007-11-30T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2007-11-30T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T21:55:00","slug":"reporting-from-zimbabwe-al-jaz-vs-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/11\/reporting-from-zimbabwe-al-jaz-vs-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting from Zimbabwe: Al Jaz vs. AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kL4xswSaWVA&amp;rel=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kL4xswSaWVA&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/11\/30\/africa\/AF-GEN-Zimbabwe-Mugabe.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Associated Press<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The government commandeered buses and state railroad cars to carry President Robert Mugabe\u2019s supporters from across the country for a march and rally near Harare Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The rally was a show of strength for Mugabe before a party meeting next month at which his continued leadership was likely to be debated, and before presidential elections next year in which he was expected to run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people will speak. Outsiders must keep their hands off,\u201d Mugabe said to cheers from supporters.<\/p>\n<p>He also ridiculed Britain, the former colonial power, for \u201cdiscussing us every week in their stupid parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 40,000 supporters marched from downtown Harare to a one-time sports field in the nearby township of Highfield, where they were joined by thousands more rural supporters carrying umbrellas against seasonal rains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, over at the Associated Press: The government commandeered buses and state railroad cars to carry President Robert Mugabe\u2019s supporters from across the country for a march and rally near Harare Friday. The rally was a show of strength for Mugabe before a party meeting next month at which his continued leadership was likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[139,268],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-al-jazeera-english","tag-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}