{"id":1985,"date":"2020-01-17T22:48:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T02:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2020-01-18T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T11:23:01","slug":"whats-up-in-lebanon-three-months-since-its-whatsapp-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/01\/17\/whats-up-in-lebanon-three-months-since-its-whatsapp-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s up in Lebanon three months since its WhatsApp Revolt?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PictureW.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1991\" width=\"550\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PictureW.png 705w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PictureW-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Franceinfo (French content): &#8220;Lebanon is *practically* gone bankrupt. The population cannot take it anymore&#8221; (Interview with Dr. Joseph Bahout, researcher at the Carnegie Foundation in Washington, USA).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-dailymotion wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-dailymotion wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Le Liban est &quot;pratiquement en faillite. La population n&#039;en peut plus&quot;\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x7qmx6x\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>France24 (English content): &#8220;Over one hundred people detained in Lebanese protests&#8221;. &#8220;Lebanon has been swept by a wave of protests aimed at the country&#8217;s  elite that prompted Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to resign on Oct. 29,  pushing the country deeper into economic crisis and frustration. Emerald  Maxwell has the latest&#8221;.          <\/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=\"Over one hundred people detained in Lebanese protests\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UC76_7V1AvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franceinfo (French content): &#8220;Lebanon is *practically* gone bankrupt. The population cannot take it anymore&#8221; (Interview with Dr. Joseph Bahout, researcher at the Carnegie Foundation in Washington, USA). France24 (English content): &#8220;Over one hundred people detained [&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\/1985"}],"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=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}