{"id":11914,"date":"2021-08-04T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=11914"},"modified":"2021-08-04T00:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T03:07:40","slug":"a-year-after-the-beirut-surrealistic-port-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/08\/04\/a-year-after-the-beirut-surrealistic-port-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"A year after the Beirut surrealistic port explosion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BeirutCandle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11916\" width=\"183\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BeirutCandle.jpg 444w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BeirutCandle-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BeirutCandle-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 85vw, 183px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you <em>Beirut 607<\/em> and l&#8217;<em>Orient Le Jour<\/em> for reminding us of all the victims of the Beirut blast, showing their faces and telling us their stories. May their memory be eternal. May God know how to comfort the hearts of their loved ones, wherever they are right now in Lebanon, Syria, Ethiopia, the Netherlands, France, Canada, Australia, or elsewhere around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi will start by sharing the 219 victims&#8217; beautiful faces. Then, if she may, she would like to offer Fairuz&#8217; famous song, interpreted by a young moving singer called Maritta, to Beirut&#8217;s living victims of negligence, corruption, and of endless, destructive, warrior mindsets hijacking their capital&#8217;s charming soul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victims_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11918\" width=\"611\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victims_1.jpg 468w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victims_1-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>A first picture taken from l&#8217;<em>Orient Le Jour<\/em> showing half of the 219 victims <br>of the Beirut port explosion of August 4, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victims_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11919\" width=\"622\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victims_2.jpg 451w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victims_2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption> A second picture taken from l&#8217;<em>Orient Le Jour<\/em> showing the rest of the 219 victims <br>of the Beirut port explosion of August 4, 2020.  <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\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=\"Li Beirut - Maritta | \u0644\u0628\u064a\u0631\u0648\u062a - \u0645\u0627\u0631\u064a\u062a\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0644\u0627\u0646\u064a (Fairuz Cover)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IwS46Sqoj6k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/heart-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11917\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/heart-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/heart-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 85vw, 235px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Beirut 607 and l&#8217;Orient Le Jour for reminding us of all the victims of the Beirut blast, showing their faces and telling us their stories. May their memory be eternal. May God know [&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\/11914"}],"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=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11949,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/11949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}