{"id":32,"date":"2003-07-13T21:43:37","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T04:43:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-07-13T21:43:37","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T04:43:37","slug":"government-doing-what-it-does-best-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/13\/government-doing-what-it-does-best-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Doing What It Does Best in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the AP:<\/p>\n<p><i>Holidays established, abolished by new Iraqi governing council<\/p>\n<p>Sunday July 13, 2003<\/p>\n<p>A look at holidays abolished by the new Iraqi governing council in its first official act, and the new holiday declared to mark the ouster of Saddam Hussein:<\/p>\n<p>ABOLISHED HOLIDAYS<\/p>\n<p>February 8: Baath Party first took power, 1963<\/p>\n<p>April 7: Foundation of Saddam&#8217;s Baath Party, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>April 17: Commemoration of Iraqi military victory in important battle for Faw during Iran-Iraq war, 1987<\/p>\n<p>April 28: Saddam&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>July 17: Return of Baath party to power, 1968<\/p>\n<p>August 8: End of Iran-Iraq war, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>NEW HOLIDAY<\/p>\n<p>April 9 The fall of Baghdad and Saddam&#8217;s regime.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Expect much squabbling over whether MLK Day should be a paid holiday for state workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the AP: Holidays established, abolished by new Iraqi governing council Sunday July 13, 2003 A look at holidays abolished by the new Iraqi governing council in its first official act, and the new holiday declared to mark the ouster of Saddam Hussein: ABOLISHED HOLIDAYS February 8: Baath Party first took power, 1963 April 7: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}