{"id":16899,"date":"2017-11-16T17:50:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T00:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16899"},"modified":"2017-11-16T17:50:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T00:50:44","slug":"what-is-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/11\/16\/what-is-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"what is &#8230; coup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m curious to figure out what it is, what the rationale is, what reasoning the military of Zimbabwe has for declaring their deposition of Mugabe a&#8230; &#8220;not coup&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.ug\/zimbabwe-army-says-troop-movement-not-coup\/\">It&#8217;s in the details of the situation, I suppose<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 When you arrest the leader, and the goal and outcome is to bypass his successor to install your own, it does seem kind of coup-like in the extreme, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>If it were a coup, they would promptly declare on their radio transmissions disclosing a &#8220;what is happening&#8221;, over Radio Zimbabwe &#8212; &#8220;Good morning, Zimbabwe.\u00c2\u00a0 Today we have enacted a coup.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n<p>Is that a thing that happens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m curious to figure out what it is, what the rationale is, what reasoning the military of Zimbabwe has for declaring their deposition of Mugabe a&#8230; &#8220;not coup&#8221;. It&#8217;s in the details of the situation, I suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 When you arrest the leader, and the goal and outcome is to bypass his successor to install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16900,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899\/revisions\/16900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}