{"id":624053,"date":"2010-01-07T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-3176647964833644843"},"modified":"2010-01-07T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T22:07:37","slug":"nostalgia-trams-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/624053","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia:  Trams in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weekly.ahram.org.eg\/2010\/979\/sc41.htm\">Al Ahram Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With photo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The early years of the 20th century altered forever Egypt&#8217;s political and social life. It was at that time that what is now called &#8220;public opinion&#8221; came into being. The newspapers and later on the radio were essential in shaping people&#8217;s views, but there was something too: the tram.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Sayed Kilani, a contemporary historian, elaborates: &#8220;When the inhabitants of the capital began to mingle, as a result of the introduction of the tram, public opinion began to take shape and influence the ruling apparatuses.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-3176647964833644843?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Ahram Weekly With photo. The early years of the 20th century altered forever Egypt&#8217;s political and social life. It was at that time that what is now called &#8220;public opinion&#8221; came into being. The newspapers and later on the radio were essential in shaping people&#8217;s views, but there was something too: the tram. Mohamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Cln","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}