{"id":573,"date":"2006-03-12T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/03\/12\/moroccans_love_their_king_dont_they"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:56:19","slug":"moroccans_love_their_king_dont_they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/03\/12\/moroccans_love_their_king_dont_they","title":{"rendered":"Moroccans love their king, don&#8217;t they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/4794188.stm\">From Our Own Correspondent<\/a> has a feature on the country&#39;s king, and the &quot;respect&quot; supposedly lavished on him in his country:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen Moulay turned up with the tea I asked him about the portrait on the telly.<br \/>\n&quot;We love him,&quot; he said.<br \/>\nOver the following days and on ensuing trips to Morocco, the young, shy face of Mohammed VI would become very familiar indeed.<br \/>\nIn fact most Moroccans probably spend more time with this face than anyone they actually know.<br \/>\nHe looks down from billboards in the street and hangs in little frames from taxi rear-view mirrors.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if these same Moroccans are as respectful of their king when away from his portraits, to say nothing of his security forces?  As one who has met a fair few in the UK, I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#39;s From Our Own Correspondent has a feature on the country&#39;s king, and the &quot;respect&quot; supposedly lavished on him in his country: When Moulay turned up with the tea I asked him about&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muslim_world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-9f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42542,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/42542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}