{"id":388,"date":"2005-03-14T10:05:29","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T17:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=388"},"modified":"2005-03-14T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T17:47:12","slug":"take-that-hizb-allah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Take That, Hizb Allah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the terrorist &#8220;Party of God&#8221; (Hizb Allah)&#8217;s bussed-in tens of thousands in Beirut last week (over which the Canadian media, at least, was salivating at the prospect of things not going Bush&#8217;s way, for once), <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/nm\/20050314\/ts_nm\/lebanon_dc\">hundreds of thousands<\/a> of people from all religions and sectors of Lebanese society have gathered to demand their freedom.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/LebanonProtest051405.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A friend of mine who lives in Beirut is disappointed the plumbers are working on her pipes today: &#8220;It looks like there must be half a million people downtown already.  I kind of wish I was with them &mdash; it looks like fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hat tips: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\">Captain&#8217;s Quarters<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\">Little Green Footballs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publiuspundit.com\/?p=658\">Much, much more<\/a> at Publius Pundit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the terrorist &#8220;Party of God&#8221; (Hizb Allah)&#8217;s bussed-in tens of thousands in Beirut last week (over which the Canadian media, at least, was salivating at the prospect of things not going Bush&#8217;s way, for once), hundreds of thousands of people from all religions and sectors of Lebanese society have gathered to demand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Take That, Hizb Allah!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}