{"id":1045,"date":"2009-06-06T07:33:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T11:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2009-06-06T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T18:35:39","slug":"the-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"The ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zahle, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1052\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/wp-content\/\/_mg_4403_21.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1052\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/wp-content\/\/_mg_4403_21.gif\" alt=\"Lebanon's notoriously unreliable state-owned electricity utility has led to a proliferation of local grids. State corruption has been a target of General Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, which has also distinguished itself with a flashy ad campaign. This ad is aimed at young Christians\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lebanon&#39;s notoriously unreliable state-owned electricity utility has led to a proliferation of local grids. State corruption has been a target of General Michel Aoun&#39;s Free Patriotic Movement, which has also distinguished itself with a flashy ad campaign. This ad is aimed at young Christians<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1054\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/wp-content\/\/_mg_44061.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1054\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/wp-content\/\/_mg_44061.gif\" alt=\"Since Ottoman times, the Skaff family has been among the most dominant in Zahle, a Christian city in the Bekaa Valley where competition is fierce in this election. The Skaff\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since Ottoman times, the Skaff family has been among the most dominant in the  Bekaa Valley. The Skaffs are now aligned with the March 8 coalition, which includes Hezbollah along with General Aoun&#39;s mainly-Christian party. The city of Zahle in the middle of the Bekaa is itself mainly  Christian and the competition for votes here is fierce. In the background, you can see the cedar logo of the Lebanese Forces, a Christian party that backs the March 14 coalition.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Adams Zahle, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon \u00a0 \u00a0<\/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-1045","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\/1045","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=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}