{"id":8898,"date":"2012-04-18T19:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T02:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2012-04-18T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T02:36:51","slug":"f1-to-be-met-with-days-of-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8898","title":{"rendered":"F1 to be met with Days of Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain activists vow days of rage for F1 race<\/strong><br \/>\n19 April, 2012 &#8211; The Dailiy Star<\/p>\n<p>DUBAI\/MANAMA: Anti-government protesters in Bahrain are planning \u201cdays of rage\u201d directed at this weekend\u2019s Formula One Grand Prix, while security forces have rounded up dozens of activists in a clampdown on the opposition in the Gulf Arab nation.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain has been in turmoil since a democracy movement erupted last year after uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>The island state\u2019s revolution was initially crushed with the loss of dozens of lives, but youths still clash daily with riot police and thousands are turning out for opposition rallies as the motor race approaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoycott F1 in Bahrain,\u201d reads a graffiti message daubed on a wall in a village outside the capital, Manama, next to a painted image of a red Ferrari race car. Another message reads: \u201cYou will race on the blood of martyrs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s ruling Al-Khalifa family had to cancel last year\u2019s race because of the uprising, but its return on April 20-22 is a chance to tell the world that all is back to normal \u2013 which could work if protests and clashes are kept to Shiite districts and do not reach major highways or the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Ecclestone, the colorful British owner of the commercial rights to Formula One, said last week the race would go ahead because all was \u201cquiet and peaceful\u201d in Bahrain, which paid last year\u2019s hosting fee of an estimated $40 million despite cancelling the race due to the conflict. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2012\/Apr-19\/170669-bahrain-activists-vow-days-of-rage-for-f1-race.ashx#axzz1sRs4KClZ\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;more<\/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%3D8898&amp;text=F1+to+be+met+with+Days+of+Rage&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain activists vow days of rage for F1 race 19 April, 2012 &#8211; The Dailiy Star DUBAI\/MANAMA: Anti-government protesters in Bahrain are planning \u201cdays of rage\u201d directed at this weekend\u2019s Formula One Grand Prix, while security forces have rounded up dozens of activists in a clampdown on the opposition in the Gulf Arab nation. Bahrain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8898#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2870],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898"}],"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=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}