{"id":5073,"date":"2020-07-01T15:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:29:58","slug":"france-24-food-insecurity-hits-middle-class-amid-lebanons-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/07\/01\/france-24-food-insecurity-hits-middle-class-amid-lebanons-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"France 24: \u201cFood insecurity hits middle class amid Lebanon\u2019s economic crisis\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1024x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5074\" width=\"573\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1024x288.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-768x216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1200x337.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 85vw, 573px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the Lebanese pound\n(or Lira) hit 9000 to the US dollar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0No more meat to Lebanese soldiers, as prices skyrocket:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lebanon-army-scraps-meat-meals-prices-skyrocket-134238911.html\">https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lebanon-army-scraps-meat-meals-prices-skyrocket-134238911.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi\u2019s sister shared a message from her bank stating that customers can only have a limit of $50 for international point of sale (POS) whilst ATM withdrawals are not allowed. <\/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\/07\/BankRoula.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5076\" width=\"289\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BankRoula.jpg 661w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BankRoula-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 85vw, 289px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can also see in this <em>France 24<\/em> video, Lebanon\u2019s situation is VERY worrisome.<\/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=\"Food insecurity hits middle class amid Lebanon\u2019s economic crisis\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9B5tFI3blY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Lebanese pound (or Lira) hit 9000 to the US dollar. \u00a0No more meat to Lebanese soldiers, as prices skyrocket: https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lebanon-army-scraps-meat-meals-prices-skyrocket-134238911.html Bambi\u2019s sister shared a message from her bank stating that customers can only [&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-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sackvillesmemorialpark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","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=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}