{"id":10019,"date":"2012-06-24T23:50:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T23:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10019"},"modified":"2012-06-25T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T00:00:33","slug":"egypt-as-star-and-crescent-pac-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10019","title":{"rendered":"Egypt as Pac-Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; <em>jeu d&#8217;esprit<\/em> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SPEC-Egypt-PacMan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SPEC-Egypt-PacMan.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Egypt PacMan\" width=\"590\" height=\"622\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SPEC-Egypt-PacMan.png 590w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SPEC-Egypt-PacMan-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s just an artefact of <strong>Juan Cole<\/strong> choosing a very light blue for &#8220;Classic Liberals&#8221; in his blog post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2012\/06\/mursi-and-the-brotherhood-in-a-pluralist-egypt.html\">Mursi and the Brotherhood in a Pluralist Egypt<\/a> &#8212; but his image of the Egyptian political landscape irresistably conjured up <strong>Pac-Man<\/strong> &#8212; and viewed in the light of <strong>Mursi<\/strong>&#8216;s victory today, Pac-Mac begins to look a lot like a westernized, stylized portrayal of the star and crescent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we&#8217;re hoping the <strong>Ikhwan<\/strong> will go chasing the <em>djenoun<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; jeu d&#8217;esprit ] . . I know it&#8217;s just an artefact of Juan Cole choosing a very light blue for &#8220;Classic Liberals&#8221; in his blog post on Mursi and the Brotherhood in a Pluralist Egypt &#8212; but his image of the Egyptian political landscape irresistably conjured up Pac-Man &#8212; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,673,529,371,687,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-egypt","category-games","category-humor","category-specs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10019"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10026,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions\/10026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}