{"id":27812,"date":"2023-11-07T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=27812"},"modified":"2023-11-07T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:00:04","slug":"robine-fiani-azar-happy-birthday-in-heaven-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2023\/11\/07\/robine-fiani-azar-happy-birthday-in-heaven-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Robine Fiani Azar: Happy birthday in heaven, Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MamaHabibiHeart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27818\" width=\"533\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MamaHabibiHeart.jpg 624w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MamaHabibiHeart-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 85vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bambi sends her love to you &#8220;Mama&#8221;, across the skies. She does the same to her courageous dad as well as sisters et al., across the miles. There is not a single day that goes by where your presence is not strongly felt within her heart and mind. Please mom, be well wherever you are and watch over your family as well as your birth country, just like angels would do. We all miss you, not just on your birthday. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AirCanada_Greece1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AirCanada_Greece1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AirCanada_Greece1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A picture taken by Bambi flying over Canada and the Atlantic Ocean on August 23rd to attend her nephew&#8217;s wedding in Athens (hello Michael &amp; St\u00e9phanie \u2764\ufe0f) &#8230; This same day turned out to be the last one of her mom&#8217;s life on earth. Her stoic and loving dad kept the news to himself for three days to allow the wedding to proceed&#8230; <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AirCanada_Greece2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AirCanada_Greece2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AirCanada_Greece2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A picture taken by Bambi on August 23, 2023 on her way to Europe.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>There is something ironic with dates sometimes. Robine&#8217;s framed picture above was taken at the wedding of Bambi&#8217;s childhood friend with her dear spouse (Bambi was not present there, but her family in Beirut attended it and celebrated their love with them). It is on the birthday of her best friend that both Robine and her mother-in-law left our world to be in heaven. May their souls keep resting in peace and may their respective memory be eternal. Much love to Bambi&#8217;s friends (et al.) and may our connection in love as well as faith transcend death. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MamaMerciRoulaBookMarks.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MamaMerciRoulaBookMarks.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MamaMerciRoulaBookMarks-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;<em>Love is greater than death. In the time that links the sky and earth, the most beautiful mystery is hidden. Think of it when you close your eyes to sleep: Love is greater than death<\/em>&#8221; (Fran\u00e7oise Hardy). Bookmarks of Robine Fiani Azar as distributed to family and friends at her 40th-day-memorial in Beirut. Thanks to Bambi&#8217; s sisters: Roula for this superb idea, and for thinking of sending a few bookmarks to Bambi. and Rania as well as St\u00e9phanie for mailing them to her.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Le ciel est \u00e0 moi\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KT8rU4gtRqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/heart-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27820\" width=\"236\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/heart-5.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/heart-5-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 85vw, 236px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi sends her love to you &#8220;Mama&#8221;, across the skies. She does the same to her courageous dad as well as sisters et al., across the miles. There is not a single day that goes [&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\/27812"}],"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=27812"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27825,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27812\/revisions\/27825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}