{"id":7284,"date":"2019-01-24T20:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=7284"},"modified":"2019-01-24T20:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:04:15","slug":"abdullah-sultan-new-malaysian-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/01\/24\/abdullah-sultan-new-malaysian-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdullah Sultan new Malaysian King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Malaysia&#8217;s royal families on Thursday elected Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah as the new king, following the unexpected abdication of the previous monarch, Reuters has reported.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of Malaysia&#8217;s royal houses, known as the Conference of Rulers, elected Sultan Abdullah, 59, ruler of the central state of Pahang, to a five year term starting on 31st January, the keeper of the rulers&#8217; seal said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad V, 49, abdicated after just two years on the throne, the first time a monarch had stepped down before completing his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Sultan Abdullah is heavily involved in sports governance &#8212; he is the current President of the Asian Hockey Federation and a council member of FIFA, the world football body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Malaysia&#8217;s royal families on Thursday elected Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah as the new king, following the unexpected abdication of the previous monarch, Reuters has reported. The leaders of Malaysia&#8217;s royal houses, known as the Conference of Rulers, elected Sultan Abdullah, 59, ruler of the central state of Pahang, to a five year &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7286,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions\/7286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}