{"id":828,"date":"2011-02-19T01:05:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T06:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/02\/19\/inviting-democracy\/"},"modified":"2011-02-19T01:05:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T06:05:50","slug":"inviting-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/02\/19\/inviting-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NYTimes reporting this week&#8230; <\/em><br \/>\nFew Americans have heard of Gene Sharp. But for decades, his practical writings on nonviolent revolution \u2014 most notably <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeinstein.org\/organizations\/org\/FDTD.pdf\">From Dictatorship to Democracy<\/a><\/em>, a 93-page guide to toppling autocrats, available for download in 24 languages \u2014 have inspired dissidents around the world, including in Burma, Bosnia, Estonia and Zimbabwe, and now Tunisia and Egypt.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/17\/world\/middleeast\/17sharp.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=1&#038;hp\">Full story<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes reporting this week&#8230; Few Americans have heard of Gene Sharp. But for decades, his practical writings on nonviolent revolution \u2014 most notably From Dictatorship to Democracy, a 93-page guide to toppling autocrats, available for download in 24 languages \u2014 have inspired dissidents around the world, including in Burma, Bosnia, Estonia and Zimbabwe, and now &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/02\/19\/inviting-democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inviting Democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}