{"id":5850,"date":"2020-08-08T16:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2020-08-08T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:11:42","slug":"li-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/08\/08\/li-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Li Beirut&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CandlesLebanon-4-1024x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CandlesLebanon-4-1024x288.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CandlesLebanon-4-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CandlesLebanon-4-768x216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CandlesLebanon-4-1200x338.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CandlesLebanon-4.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Beirut\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UgLXi4Ujh8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi would like to thank her sister Roula for sharing this artistic video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It shows Beirut, with its port explosion&#8230; The latter is its tragic reality and an integral part of the unfolding story in front of our hopeless eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Li Beirut&#8221;<\/strong>  is a famous song by Fairuz and here is a quick translation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA greeting from my heart to Beirut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kisses to the sea and to the houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To a rock, which is like an old sailor\u2019s face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is made from the people\u2019s soul and from wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is made from their sweat, from bread, and jasmine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how does her taste become? A taste of fire and smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beirut has a glory of ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My city has turned out her lamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By a child\u2019s blood, who was over her hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She shut her door and became alone in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alone with the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are mine, you are mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh hug me, you are mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are my flag, tomorrow&#8217;s stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a travel\u2019s waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My people\u2019s wounds have flourished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And mothers&#8217; tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are mine, you are mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh hug me\u201d .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi would like to thank her sister Roula for sharing this artistic video. It shows Beirut, with its port explosion&#8230; The latter is its tragic reality and an integral part of the unfolding story in [&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\/5850"}],"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=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}