{"id":98,"date":"2005-11-22T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=98"},"modified":"2005-11-23T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T14:43:49","slug":"vacation-all-i-ever-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Vacation, All I Ever Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/journal_20051122a.jpg\" alt=\"independence day flags\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/journal_20051122b.jpg\" alt=\"independence day\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had the day off from teaching because today is Independence Day.  If the people I talked to are representative of the population at large, this is somehow not felt to be a very important holiday, even in 2005, the year the Syrian soldiers left.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon gained independence in 1943, after being administered by France following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.    I missed the military parade that went on downtown, mostly because it started at 8 AM and I had stayed up late the night before, but I watched a bit of it on TV.  The VIP stands were about half full and there were very few other spectators.  I wandered down there shortly after the parade ended and took some pictures of flags and tanks.  A few groups of people came to bring flowers to Harri&#8217;s grave, but otherwise, Martyr&#8217;s Square was nearly empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the day off from teaching because today is Independence Day. If the people I talked to are representative of the population at large, this is somehow not felt to be a very important holiday, even in 2005, the year the Syrian soldiers left. Lebanon gained independence in 1943, after being administered by France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}