{"id":30781,"date":"2022-05-20T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/somalias-presidential-election-up-close#id31853"},"modified":"2022-05-20T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:55:00","slug":"whispering-cajoling-lobbying-neck-massaging-beard-pulling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/whispering-cajoling-lobbying-neck-massaging-beard-pulling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhispering, cajoling, lobbying, neck massaging, beard-pulling\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days late on this, but here&#39;s an interesting thread from <em>New York Times<\/em> East Africa correspondent Abdi Latif Dahir on what it was like to watch Somalia&#39;s presidential election up close over the weekend.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First round of voting is over and counting has gotten underway now. We just heard four loud bangs which made people go quiet. One police officer said they were possible mortar attacks but said they happening &ldquo;at a distance.&rdquo; He also asked us to stay calm. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SomaliElections2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SomaliElections2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Abdi Latif Dahir (@Lattif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lattif\/status\/1525831167173345281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \"Trebuchet MS\";\">See also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/somalia-elects-new-president-but-terrorists-hold-true-power-elections-hassan-sheikh-mohamud-7920705\/\" style=\"font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \"Trebuchet MS\";\">&#8220;Somalia elects new President, but terrorists hold true power&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/somalias-presidential-election-up-close\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days late on this, but here&#8217;s an interesting thread from <em>New York Times<\/em> East Africa correspondent Abdi Latif Dahir on what it was like to watch Somalia&#8217;s presidential election up close over the weekend.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First round of voting is over and counting has gotten underway now. We just heard four loud bangs which made people go quiet. One police officer said they were possible mortar attacks but said they happening \u201cat a distance.\u201d He also asked us to stay calm. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SomaliElections2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SomaliElections2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abdi Latif Dahir (@Lattif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lattif\/status\/1525831167173345281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>See also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/somalia-elects-new-president-but-terrorists-hold-true-power-elections-hassan-sheikh-mohamud-7920705\/\">&#8220;Somalia elects new President, but terrorists hold true power&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/somalias-presidential-election-up-close\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30782,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781\/revisions\/30782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}