{"id":24151,"date":"2018-12-03T15:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24151"},"modified":"2018-12-03T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:24:25","slug":"qatar-is-pulling-out-of-opec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24151","title":{"rendered":"Qatar is pulling out of OPEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Dubai (CNN Business)<\/cite>OPEC is losing one of its oldest members.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The small, gas-rich state of Qatar said Monday that it will leave the oil cartel on January 1 after nearly 60 years. The country&#8217;s state oil company, Qatar Petroleum, made the announcement in a series of tweets. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The withdrawal decision reflects Qatar&#8217;s desire to focus its efforts on plans to develop and increase its natural gas production,&#8221; Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the country&#8217;s newly-appointed<strong> <\/strong>minister of state for energy affairs, was cited as saying in one of the tweets.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai (CNN Business)OPEC is losing one of its oldest members.The small, gas-rich state of Qatar said Monday that it will leave the oil cartel on January 1 after nearly 60 years. The country&#8217;s state oil company, Qatar Petroleum, made the announcement in a series of tweets. &#8220;The withdrawal decision reflects Qatar&#8217;s desire to focus its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24151","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=24151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}