{"id":483,"date":"2008-05-19T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/2008\/05\/19\/thank-you-all-bbc-edit-its-article-about-kuwait\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:02:11","slug":"thank-you-all-bbc-edit-its-article-about-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Thank You All , BBC edit its article about Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>after i asked you blog readers and others to contact BBC about their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/2008\/05\/18\/kuwait-election-someone-has-to-rain-on-our-parade-bbc\/\">article<\/a> it paid off<br \/>\nThe past paragraph<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Excluded from the ballot were foreign expatriates, who make up the majority of Kuwait\u2019s 2.9-million population, and military personnel.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The edited version<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The majority of Kuwait&#8217;s 2.9-million population is made up of expatriates, who do not have a vote. Military personnel are also ineligible to cast ballots.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and i got this E-mail from the BBC<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dear Sir<br \/>\nThe main import of the paragraph you draw attention to is that the<br \/>\nmajority of people in Kuwait are expatriates; not to make a point that<br \/>\nexpatriates are not allowed to vote, which &#8211; as you point out &#8211; is a<br \/>\nperfectly normal condition.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<br \/>\nBBC News website<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again thats thanks for the help for Your Help for Kuwait<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after i asked you blog readers and others to contact BBC about their article it paid off The past paragraph Excluded from the ballot were foreign expatriates, who make up the majority of Kuwait\u2019s 2.9-million population, and military personnel. The edited version The majority of Kuwait&#8217;s 2.9-million population is made up of expatriates, who do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank You All , BBC edit its article about Kuwait<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}