{"id":2143,"date":"2020-02-02T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2020-02-02T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T00:30:13","slug":"picture-of-the-day-lorient-le-jour-beirut-citizen-roula-abdo-wants-to-crack-the-doors-of-fear-roula-abdo-veut-fendre-les-portes-de-la-peur-any-small-analogy-with-sackville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/02\/02\/picture-of-the-day-lorient-le-jour-beirut-citizen-roula-abdo-wants-to-crack-the-doors-of-fear-roula-abdo-veut-fendre-les-portes-de-la-peur-any-small-analogy-with-sackville\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture of the day, l\u2019Orient le Jour: Beirut citizen Roula Abdo wants to crack the doors of fear [&#8220;Roula Abdo veut fendre les portes de la peur&#8221;]. Any small analogy with Sackville?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WallofShame.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2144\" width=\"466\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WallofShame.jpg 396w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WallofShame-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 85vw, 466px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"582\" height=\"387\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/RoulaAbdo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/RoulaAbdo.jpg 582w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/RoulaAbdo-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 85vw, 582px\" \/><figcaption>A picture taken from l&#8217;<em>Orient Le Jou<\/em>r (February 3, 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A small analogy between Beirut, Lebanon and Sackville, NB, Canada:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Beirut, behind this wall (\u201cof shame\u201d, as called by\nthe citizens), politicians are \u201chiding\u201d from the protestors in the Parliament\nof Lebanon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the town hall of Sackville  (NB), the clerk working with our municipal politicians is hiding behind a \u201c$7,800 glass partition\u201d as the \u201cthe aluminum and tempered glass barrier is needed for greater security\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/warktimes.com\/2016\/11\/10\/sackville-councillors-set-to-tighten-security-at-town-hall\/\">https:\/\/warktimes.com\/2016\/11\/10\/sackville-councillors-set-to-tighten-security-at-town-hall\/<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Wall3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2147\" width=\"358\" height=\"208\"\/><figcaption>Sackville Town Hall&#8217;s picture taken from the <em>New Wark Times<\/em> (November, 10, 2016) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Politicians may sometimes share similar characteristics across countries or jurisdictions. Populations may differ. For example, perhaps the people of Lebanon also began by being apathetic. However, the surrealistic level of corruption over the last decades provoked an unprecedented economic crisis. The people woke up from their \u201ccoma\u201d, to use words they use themselves. They revolted in the streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanese politicians may be afraid of them because they are like a mirror reflecting their own vices.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of cement walls, they need \u201cconcrete\u201d bridges of communication to truly reassure the population and find solutions to problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This being said, will the Lebanese financial rescue plan expected tomorrow from the new government succeed in reforming the country, as aspired by its population? \u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small analogy between Beirut, Lebanon and Sackville, NB, Canada: In Beirut, behind this wall (\u201cof shame\u201d, as called by the citizens), politicians are \u201chiding\u201d from the protestors in the Parliament of Lebanon. In the [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sackvillesmemorialpark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}