{"id":49554,"date":"2020-01-11T19:16:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T19:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49554"},"modified":"2020-01-11T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T19:17:06","slug":"omans-sultan-qaboos-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/omans-sultan-qaboos-dies-at-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman\u2019s Sultan Qaboos dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-49555\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Qaboos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" \/>Oman\u2019s Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said, the longest-serving leader in the Gulf region, died early on Saturday at the age of 79. July would have marked his fiftieth anniversary of ruling the country. Qaboos will go down in history as a ruler that took his small country in the Middle East to new levels of modernization and mediation. \u201cThe service Sultan Qaboos has done for his country over the last five decades is unmatched by any leader in modern times,\u201d said former US ambassador to Oman Richard Schmierer in an interview.<br \/>\nQaboos was born in the Omani city of Salalah on November 18, 1940, the only son of ruler Sultan Said bin Taimur and Sheikha Mazoon al-Mashani.<br \/>\nEducated in Britain, including at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Qaboos\u2019 accession to the throne came at the young age of 29, when he overthrew his father in a bloodless coup on July 23, 1970.<br \/>\nUpon first assuming power, Qaboos told his people, \u201cOman in the past was in darkness, but a new dawn will rise.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/omans-sultan-qaboos-dies-at-79\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oman\u2019s Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said, the longest-serving leader in the Gulf region, died early on Saturday at the age of 79. July would have marked his fiftieth anniversary of ruling the country. Qaboos will go down in history as a ruler that took his small country in the Middle East to new levels of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49556,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49554\/revisions\/49556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}