{"id":375460,"date":"2010-03-01T10:57:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77902"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:57:42","slug":"iraqi-political-party-takes-internet-cue-from-obama-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375460","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Political Party Takes Internet Cue from Obama Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ahrarparty.com\/\">This is the English-language website of Ahrar<\/a>, a secularist Iraqi political party contesting the March 7 parliamentary elections that used to be somewhat affiliated with ex-Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Does it remind you of a certain American political campaign? One that promised &#8220;Hope For The Future&#8221;?<span id=\"more-77902\"><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77904\" title=\"ahrar\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ahrar.png\" alt=\"ahrar\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrarparty.com\/en\/about\/party.html\">Elsewhere on the site<\/a>, Ahrar assures voters that its leader, Ayad Jamal Al-Din, &#8220;has always stood for unity &#8212; and for One Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess anyone could build a campaign website with the Obama template, but you know&#8230; hmm&#8230; Are David Plouffe or Blue State Digital doing any work for Iraqis? Just asking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the English-language website of Ahrar, a secularist Iraqi political party contesting the March 7 parliamentary elections that used to be somewhat affiliated with ex-Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Does it remind you of a certain American political campaign? One that promised &#8220;Hope For The Future&#8221;? Elsewhere on the site, Ahrar assures voters that its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}