{"id":3777,"date":"2011-02-24T17:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T17:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2011-02-24T17:41:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T17:41:42","slug":"question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"Question&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been hearing a great deal about the &#8220;leaderless&#8221; Libyan resistance to Gaddafi. To a lesser degree, we heard similar things about Egypt when protestors failed to coalesce behind Elbareidi as\u00a0Egypt&#8217;s national savior, but it was muted, perhaps due to the prominence of <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wael_Ghonim\">Wael Ghonim<\/a><\/strong>, an influential figure to whom western reporters and audencies could relate. Ghonim, however, was not a &#8220;leader&#8221; in the same sense as say, Nehru, Walesa or Yeltsin.<\/p>\n<p>Are these revolts really of a different political character or do their &#8220;leaders&#8221; in this panopticonic global environment just have the sense to stay the hell out of sight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been hearing a great deal about the &#8220;leaderless&#8221; Libyan resistance to Gaddafi. To a lesser degree, we heard similar things about Egypt when protestors failed to coalesce behind Elbareidi as\u00a0Egypt&#8217;s national savior, but it was muted, perhaps due to the prominence of Wael Ghonim, an influential figure to whom western reporters and audencies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,16,46,498,119,476,524,272,87,456,51,199,499,492,43,522,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-5gw","category-analytic","category-arab-world","category-attention","category-democracy","category-evolution","category-feedback","category-foreign-policy","category-globalization","category-history","category-insurgency","category-islamic-world","category-leadership","category-mideast","category-questions","category-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}