{"id":1013,"date":"2009-06-04T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T19:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2009-06-05T06:26:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T10:26:47","slug":"lebanon-election-pix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Election Pix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beirut<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1012\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/wp-content\/\/_mg_4349_24.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1012\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/wp-content\/\/_mg_4349_24-300x190.gif\" alt=\"This requires a bit of explanation. The statue is of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister murdered by a car bomb so enormous that it damaged the building around it, including the hotel building you can see in the background. Someone has draped it with a banner protesting the downtown Beirut redevelopment championed by Hariri, but which also drove up the national debt and was allegedly rife with corruption.\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This requires a bit of explanation. The statue is of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister murdered by a car bomb so enormous that it damaged the buildings around it, including the hotel building you can see in the background. Someone has draped it with a banner protesting the downtown Beirut redevelopment championed by Hariri, but which also drove up the national debt and was allegedly rife with corruption.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1017\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/wp-content\/\/img_43591.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1017\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/wp-content\/\/img_43591-244x300.gif\" alt=\"This is a ballot (for the March 8th slate I am told). The parties prepare these filled-in ballots which are handed to supporters, and then deposited directly in the ballot box.  \" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a ballot (for the March 8th slate I am told). The parties prepare these filled-in ballots which are handed to supporters, and then deposited in an envelope that goes into the ballot box.  <\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Paul Adams teaches journalism at Carleton and in is Lebanon this week as an election observer with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Adams Beirut \u00a0 \u00a0 Paul Adams teaches journalism at Carleton and in is Lebanon this week as an election observer with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-political-stragegy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}