{"id":7849,"date":"2020-11-22T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T04:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2020-11-22T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T04:02:41","slug":"november-22-2020-lebanons-independence-day-without-a-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/11\/22\/november-22-2020-lebanons-independence-day-without-a-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"November 22, 2020: Lebanon&#8217;s Independence Day&#8230; without a new government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/LebanonDrawing-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7851\" width=\"263\" height=\"148\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is the Lebanese Independence Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day filled with mixed emotions. From patriotic love to pride, from sadness to hope&#8230; and back to love of a country that is struggling to exist, even if it is there to stay, rise,  and shine again! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Independence from whom? From what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we be truly independent of regional forces some have aligned Lebanon with to a suffocating extent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we be truly independent when we have so many crises to deal with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we really be independent when we have a government morally and financially corrupt&#8230; and bankrupt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we be independent when our loyalty is more to an ideology than to our country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically, Independence Day # 77 seems to be about the independence of the Lebanese population from its disconnected mafia-like government&#8230;. whilst awaiting the true independence from the internal militia forces controlling it?<\/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=\"Tania Kassis - Lebanese National Anthem arr. by Michel Fadel (2019)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A8XWF_682is?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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\/11\/heart-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7859\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/heart-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/heart-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 85vw, 208px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Lebanese Independence Day. A day filled with mixed emotions. From patriotic love to pride, from sadness to hope&#8230; and back to love of a country that is struggling to exist, even if [&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\/7849"}],"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=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7863,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/7863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}