{"id":17011,"date":"2018-10-01T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17011"},"modified":"2018-10-01T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T23:23:12","slug":"deadline-to-elect-new-iraqi-president-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17011","title":{"rendered":"Deadline to elect new Iraqi president nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64\">\n<p>Iraq\u2019s parliament has to elect its new president within the next few hours, a role that is served by a Kurd.<\/p>\n<p>The process has been plagued with delays and both main Kurdish parties are for the first time contesting the post. <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rob Matheson reports from Baghdad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq\u2019s parliament has to elect its new president within the next few hours, a role that is served by a Kurd. The process has been plagued with delays and both main Kurdish parties are for the first time contesting the post. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rob Matheson reports from Baghdad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}