{"id":314,"date":"2019-09-15T15:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=314"},"modified":"2019-09-15T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:55:18","slug":"talented-young-lebanese-made-their-dreams-come-true-in-the-united-states-and-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/15\/talented-young-lebanese-made-their-dreams-come-true-in-the-united-states-and-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Talented young Lebanese made their dreams come true in the United States and Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LebaneseTalent-1024x533.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-315\" width=\"354\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LebaneseTalent-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LebaneseTalent-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LebaneseTalent-768x399.png 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LebaneseTalent-1200x624.png 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LebaneseTalent.png 1298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 85vw, 354px\" \/><figcaption>Talented young Lebanese made their dreams come true in the United States and Britain<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi usually follows the news from Lebanon and the Middle\nEast with much interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, every day, we hear stories about security\nthreats or violence here and there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Bambi read and watched two pieces of good news\nrelated to Lebanese youth talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, she read about a student, called Georges Kennan,\nwho completed a summer research training at the NASA. Bravo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GK.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-316\"\/><figcaption>Georges Kennan, picture taken from l&#8217;<em>Orient Le Jour<\/em> (Sept 15, 2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, Bambi\u2019s sister shared with her the video below. Wow&#8211;Bravo to these talented Lebanese young female dancers whose team is called Mayyas. They participated in the <em>Britain Got Talent<\/em> show (earlier, Mayyas was the winner of the golden buzzer on <em>Arabs Got Talent<\/em>, AGT)! &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayyas charmed all the judges of <em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em>, as you can see in the video below (if you take the time to watch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nMay peace, prosperity, and&#8230; talent prevail!\n\n<\/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=\"Britain&#039;s Got Talent 2019 The Champions Mayyas 3rd Round Audition\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4vJaBKEqM2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi usually follows the news from Lebanon and the Middle East with much interest. Sadly, every day, we hear stories about security threats or violence here and there. Today, Bambi read and watched two pieces [&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\/314"}],"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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}