{"id":10865,"date":"2021-05-19T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=10865"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T20:02:32","slug":"bbc-lebanons-financial-and-economic-freefall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/bbc-lebanons-financial-and-economic-freefall\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: &#8220;Lebanon&#8217;s financial and economic freefall&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LebanonWorrisome-1024x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10866\" width=\"416\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LebanonWorrisome-1024x288.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LebanonWorrisome-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LebanonWorrisome-768x216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LebanonWorrisome-1200x337.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 85vw, 416px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon is facing multiple crises, perhaps the worst of all (thus far) is its economic tragedy after the financial collapse on October 16, 2019.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Bambi, almost all the Lebanese crises (minus perhaps the Covid-19 pandemic) seem to have one common denominator: &#8220;<em>Those responsible have proven themselves to be irresponsible<\/em>&#8220;. These words come from Nurse Hassan in describing to the <em>BBC<\/em> reporter the devastating impact of hyperinflation on people&#8217;s lives, including himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A short documentary worth watching&#8230; until the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Lebanon&#039;s financial and economic freefall - BBC News\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AFdJ2TCvArY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon is facing multiple crises, perhaps the worst of all (thus far) is its economic tragedy after the financial collapse on October 16, 2019. For Bambi, almost all the Lebanese crises (minus perhaps the Covid-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10870,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865\/revisions\/10870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}