{"id":50885,"date":"2019-11-17T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=50885"},"modified":"2019-11-17T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:43:00","slug":"u-s-embassy-in-lebanon-denies-funding-revolution-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=50885","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy In Lebanon Denies Funding &#8220;Revolution Bus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Nov 17 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; The U.S. embassy in Lebanon denied rumours, about the embassy standing behind the financing of a &#8220;revolution bus&#8221; in Lebanon, amid nationwide protests against the ruling class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The embassy tweeted that it has nothing to do with the revolution bus, while &#8220;the embassy supports the Lebanese people in their peaceful demonstrations and expressions of national unity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revolution bus aimed at travelling from north to south of Lebanon on Sunday (today), through the main sites of the month-long demonstrations in Lebanon, to convey a message of peace, and that protesters from all regions are united against the political ruling class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of people accused the bus of being funded by foreign powers and hence prevented it from entering the city of Sidon, south of Lebanon, creating tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bus succeeded in entering Sidon after negotiations with the Lebanese army, allowing protesters on board to join others on the ground in the southern city.&#8211; NNN-NNA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Nov 17 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; The U.S. embassy in Lebanon denied rumours, about the embassy standing behind the financing of a &#8220;revolution bus&#8221; in Lebanon, amid nationwide protests against the ruling class. The embassy tweeted that it has nothing to do with the revolution bus, while &#8220;the embassy supports the Lebanese people in their peaceful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}