{"id":2780,"date":"2025-01-14T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/syrias-president-wasnt-intended-for-the-top-job-bbc-world-service-shorts\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:14:00","slug":"syrias-president-wasnt-intended-for-the-top-job-bbc-world-service-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/syrias-president-wasnt-intended-for-the-top-job-bbc-world-service-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria&#39;s president wasn&#39;t intended for the top job &#8211; BBC World Service #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qUOml7pZkfM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The last 12 years of the Syrian civil war have devastated the country and its people. But Bashar al-Assad, the man in power, had not always been intended for the top job.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa7 On this episode of The Explanation, Lina Sinjab unpacks the story of Syria&#8217;s long war and the country&#8217;s leader: https:\/\/bbc.in\/40933ZR <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldserviceradio<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/facebook.com\/bbcworldservice<\/p>\n<p>#shorts<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qUOml7pZkfM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last 12 years of the Syrian civil war have devastated the country and its people. But Bashar al-Assad, the man in power, had not always been intended for the top job. \ud83c\udfa7 On this episode of The Explanation, Lina Sinjab unpacks the story of Syria&#8217;s long war and the country&#8217;s leader: https:\/\/bbc.in\/40933ZR Subscribe &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150479,"featured_media":2781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4853,4854,4850,4848,4851,4852,4849,15,4863,4864,1361,4847,4846,816,4862,328,1362,1363,4856,4855,4844,4845,4857,4859,4860,4861,4858],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-assad-family","tag-assad-syria","tag-bashar-al-asad","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-bashar-asad","tag-bashar-assad","tag-bashar-el-assad","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-syria","tag-bbc-syria-war","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-damascus","tag-deraa","tag-discovery","tag-lina-sinjab-bbc","tag-podcast","tag-podcasts","tag-radio","tag-syria-drones","tag-syria-russia","tag-syria-war","tag-syrian-war","tag-what-is-the-war-in-syria","tag-who-is-bashar-al-assad","tag-who-is-bashar-asad","tag-who-is-bashar-el-asad","tag-why-is-there-war-in-syria","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}