{"id":68304,"date":"2024-12-08T17:10:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T17:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=68304"},"modified":"2024-12-08T17:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T17:10:52","slug":"from-eye-doctor-to-dictator-the-rise-and-fall-of-assads-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/08\/from-eye-doctor-to-dictator-the-rise-and-fall-of-assads-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"From eye doctor to dictator &#8211; the rise and fall of Assad&#8217;s presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1vtQsJ.img?w=768&amp;h=432&amp;m=6&amp;x=350&amp;y=175&amp;s=1068&amp;d=448\" alt=\"Bashar al Assad and his wife Asma in 2010. Pic: AP\" width=\"528\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bashar al Assad&#8217;s downfall marks an end to more than half a century of family rule, as rebel forces turned the tide in a civil war he had embraced. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/from-eye-doctor-to-dictator-the-rise-and-fall-of-assad-s-presidency\/ar-AA1vtHlc?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=5cb4827faa304e97996940a97af7de55&amp;ei=69\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; Bashar al Assad&#8217;s downfall marks an end to more than half a century of family rule, as rebel forces turned the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bashir-Al-Assad.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68305,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68304\/revisions\/68305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}