{"id":88029,"date":"2011-04-21T14:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T09:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=88029"},"modified":"2011-04-21T14:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T09:13:06","slug":"kyrgyz-parliament-sacrifices-sheep-to-expel-evil-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/21\/kyrgyz-parliament-sacrifices-sheep-to-expel-evil-spirits.html","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyz Parliament Sacrifices Sheep to Expel &#8216;Evil Spirits&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s raucous parliament have sacrificed seven sheep in what they call a bid to drive evil spirits out of the chamber, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2011\/04\/21\/world\/asia\/AP-AS-Kyrgyzstan-Possessed-Parliament.html?_r=2&amp;hp\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The New York Times reports<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, citing AP.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament press officer Shairbek Mamatoktorov said almost all the deputies attended Thursday morning&#8217;s traditional ceremony. He says meat from the slaughtered animals will be sent to homes for the elderly and the disabled.<\/p>\n<p>The impoverished Central Asian nation&#8217;s fragile three-party coalition has descended into a flurry of squabbling. Deputies from two parties in the fragile coalition government even came to blows earlier this month and traded bitter accusations.<\/p>\n<p>This month marked the first anniversary of a bloody uprising that led to the ouster of the country&#8217;s authoritarian leader.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s raucous parliament have sacrificed seven sheep in what they call a bid to drive evil spirits out&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21029,11509,25282],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}