{"id":3175,"date":"2011-09-21T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2012-09-26T06:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T13:08:24","slug":"king-hamad-suspends-drivers-licenses-of-all-bahrainis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3175","title":{"rendered":"King Hamad Suspends drivers licenses of all Bahrainis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain protesters clog roads in pre-election act<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociated Press, 09.21.11, 02:32 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain &#8212; Traffic has been brought to a crawl on many Bahrain highways after calls by pro-reform groups to flood the roads with cars in a show of strength before parliamentary elections later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Shiite-led protesters are seeking to send a message of defiance to Sunni authorities after warnings of harsh responses to any attempts at disrupting Saturday&#8217;s voting in the Gulf kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic jams hit during the morning commute Wednesday. Security forces were on high alert, but there were no reports of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s majority Shiites began protests in February for greater rights from the ruling Sunni dynasty. Shiite groups are urging a boycott of the upcoming election for 18 seats abandoned by Shiite lawmakers to protest the crackdown.<\/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%3D3175&amp;text=King+Hamad+Suspends+drivers+licenses+of+all+Bahrainis&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain protesters clog roads in pre-election act Associated Press, 09.21.11, 02:32 AM EDT MANAMA, Bahrain &#8212; Traffic has been brought to a crawl on many Bahrain highways after calls by pro-reform groups to flood the roads with cars in a show of strength before parliamentary elections later this week. Shiite-led protesters are seeking to send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3175#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":[1786],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175"}],"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=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12911,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/12911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}