{"id":534,"date":"2013-06-23T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/06\/arab-idol-winner-performs-i-want-it-that-way.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:40:32","slug":"arab-idol-winner-performs-i-want-it-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/06\/arab-idol-winner-performs-i-want-it-that-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Arab Idol Winner Performs \u201cI want it that Way\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zSgbAWnA4mw?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"450\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Muhammad Assaf of Gaza performs \u201cI want it that Way\u201d by the Backstreet Boys. Historian Juan Cole writes about it in his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2013\/06\/winner-performs-that.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Informed Consent<\/a>. He writes that Palestinian cities \u201cwent wild with celebrations\u201d after the winner was announced. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/23\/mohammed-assaf-wins-arab-idol\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the story from the Guardia<\/a>n.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Assaf of Gaza performs \u201cI want it that Way\u201d by the Backstreet Boys. Historian Juan Cole writes about it in his blog, Informed Consent. He writes that Palestinian cities \u201cwent wild with celebrations\u201d after the winner was announced. Here is the story from the Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arab Idol Winner Performs \u201cI want it that Way\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Muhammad Assaf of Gaza performs \u201cI want it that Way\u201d by the Backstreet Boys. Historian Juan Cole writes about it in his blog, Informed Consent. 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