{"id":1931,"date":"2011-06-17T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2011-06-17T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T20:07:29","slug":"bahrain-saudi-royal-wedding-end-times-for-kings-and-tryants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"The last Bahrain, Saudi Royal Wedding &#8211; End Times for Kings and Tryants!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain, Saudi Royal Wedding Set, Further Cementing National Ties<br \/>\nRiyadh Mosque Skyline<br \/>\n06\/17\/11 04:40 AM ET   AP<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain &#8212; Bahrain says the son of the island nation&#8217;s king and the daughter of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s monarch have agreed to wed \u2013 further cementing ties boosted by cooperation to crush pro-reform protests.<\/p>\n<p>An announcement on the official Bahrain News Agency says Bahrain&#8217;s Sheik Khalid bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa signed a marriage contract Thursday with the daughter of Saudi King Abdullah. The Friday report did not give the woman&#8217;s name or when the ceremony would occur.<\/p>\n<p>Such strategic family alliances are common among the Gulf&#8217;s Sunni leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is leading a Gulf military force sent to Bahrain in March to help smother Shiite-led protests demanding greater rights.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/06\/17\/bahrain-and-saudi-royal-families-wedding_n_878963.html\">  &#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D1931&amp;text=The+last+Bahrain%2C+Saudi+Royal+Wedding+-+End+Times+for+Kings+and+Tryants%21&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain, Saudi Royal Wedding Set, Further Cementing National Ties Riyadh Mosque Skyline 06\/17\/11 04:40 AM ET AP MANAMA, Bahrain &#8212; Bahrain says the son of the island nation&#8217;s king and the daughter of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s monarch have agreed to wed \u2013 further cementing ties boosted by cooperation to crush pro-reform protests. An announcement on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1931#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1289],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}