{"id":5712,"date":"2008-02-19T04:41:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T12:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2008-02-19T04:42:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T12:42:18","slug":"castro-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5712","title":{"rendered":"Castro Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensitoreview.com\/\">Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Fidel Castro, Cuba&#8217;s supreme leader since January 1959, has announced  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-castro20feb20,0,7737031.story\">he will retire<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Cuban leader Fidel Castro told compatriots early today that he would not accept another term as president, throwing open the Communist-ruled island&#8217;s leadership for the first time in nearly 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Castro, 81, and ailing with an undisclosed intestinal disorder, announced in a statement carried on the state-run Granma International newspaper website early today that he was stepping down as head of state.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His announcement left little wiggle room for a comeback: &#8220;I do not aspire to and will not accept, I repeat, I neither want nor will accept, the position of president of the Council of State and commander in chief.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. Fidel Castro, Cuba&#8217;s supreme leader since January 1959, has announced he will retire: Cuban leader Fidel Castro told compatriots early today that he would not accept another term as president, throwing open the Communist-ruled island&#8217;s leadership for the first time in nearly 50 years. Castro, 81, and ailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}