{"id":18727,"date":"2022-04-16T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=18727"},"modified":"2022-04-16T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:13:10","slug":"surrealistic-beirut-port-explosion-waiting-for-godot-or-for-justice-is-there-any-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/04\/16\/surrealistic-beirut-port-explosion-waiting-for-godot-or-for-justice-is-there-any-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrealistic Beirut port explosion: Waiting for Godot or for justice&#8230; Is there any difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BeirutLebanonDrawing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18728\" width=\"410\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BeirutLebanonDrawing.jpg 964w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BeirutLebanonDrawing-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BeirutLebanonDrawing-768x234.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 85vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s post will be brief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No need for many words&#8230; Just one moving picture taken from l<em>&#8216;Orient Le Jour.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi will conclude with Fairuz&#8217; famous song for Beirut, subtitled in English. <em>Li Beirut<\/em>  is also offered to the families of the victims of the Beirut port blast of August 4, 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, since we are in the spirit of Easter, may Beirut &#8220;rise&#8221; from its darkness. May Lebanon finally start its LONG road of recovery&#8230; and collective healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FamillesPort_Avril16-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FamillesPort_Avril16-2022.jpg 624w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FamillesPort_Avril16-2022-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>A picture taken from l&#8217;<em>Orient Le Jour<\/em>.<br>Beirut, April 15, 2022: Families of some of the very first victims of the surrealistic Beirut port explosion, the heroic firefighters who were sent to their death. As a reminder, no one ever warned them about the hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate that exploded on April 4, 2020, destroying half of the Lebanese capital, killing over 200 people (including kids), and <br>injuring over 6000-7000+ residents. <\/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=\"Fairuz - Li-Beirut (Modern Standard Arabic) Lyrics + Translation - \u0641\u064a\u0631\u0648\u0632 - \u0644\u0628\u064a\u0631\u0648\u062a\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0xLvBEOPm0?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\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"164\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FlowersHearts.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18736\"\/><figcaption>While waiting for Godot\/Justice, if she may, Bambi would like to offer these flowers to Judge Tarek Bitar for his courage!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post will be brief. No need for many words&#8230; Just one moving picture taken from l&#8216;Orient Le Jour. Bambi will conclude with Fairuz&#8217; famous song for Beirut, subtitled in English. Li Beirut is also [&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\/18727"}],"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=18727"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18745,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions\/18745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}