{"id":813,"date":"2014-09-17T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T11:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=813"},"modified":"2014-09-17T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T11:27:56","slug":"2014-9-17-show-sisi-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Show Sisi the money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madamasr.com\/content\/donation-plea-egypt-live-long\">Mada Masr<\/a> about the mysterious, unaccountable funds to which Egyptians are being strongly encouraged to donate. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Driven by curiosity, rather than patriotic sentiment, I also decided to donate to the Tahya Masr fund. Rather than promise Sisi my vital organs, I settled on a humble LE100 and accepted that I would be outdone by an 8-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived at the National Bank of Egypt, one of four banks that accepts donations, I quietly stated that I was here to donate to the Tahya Masr fund. The security guard and the policeman sitting next to him greeted me with excitement and respect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s it?\u201d the policeman asked cheekily as he handed me a number and asked me to wait my turn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After my number was called, I walked up to the desk, bolstered by my two new friends at the door, and stated that I would like to donate to the Tahya Masr fund, to which a busy bank teller shook his head and asked for my ID.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First, however, as a contributor to the fund, I had a few questions: how much money has been collected so far, where will the money go, and how soon?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The bank teller responded impatiently with \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d to every question.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I then asked what the difference was between account number 306306 and 037037. He went into a discussion with his neighboring colleague, and finally came back with an answer: \u201c306306 is called Support Egypt, while 037037 is called Long Live Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Both accounts were active at the same time, and people can still donate to either one, I learned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNow, are you going to give me the money?\u201d the teller asked, as I handed over my LE100 bill, not knowing where it would end up<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great story in Mada Masr about the mysterious, unaccountable funds to which Egyptians are being strongly encouraged to donate. &nbsp; Driven by curiosity, rather than patriotic sentiment, I also decided to donate to the Tahya Masr fund. Rather than promise Sisi my vital organs, I settled on a humble LE100 and accepted that I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Show Sisi the money<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6,210,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}