{"id":14195,"date":"2014-04-04T12:16:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14195"},"modified":"2014-04-04T12:26:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:26:27","slug":"the-bad-news-syria-becomes-an-ever-greater-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14195","title":{"rendered":"The bad news: Syria becomes an ever-greater tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The civil war in Syria has now been running inexorably for three years. In that time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At least 150,000 people have been killed.<\/li>\n<li>The total number of deaths could be about 22o,000.<\/li>\n<li>Half the population is believed to have fled their homes.<\/li>\n<li>The total number of refugees is around 2.5 million.<\/li>\n<li>One million of the Syrian refugees are in Lebanon.<\/li>\n<li>Syrian refugees make up a quarter of Lebanon&#8217;s resident population.<\/li>\n<li>The situation in Lebanon is \u00a0the highest per capita concentration of refugees worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My wife and I visited Syria and Lebanon a couple of weeks before the civil war broke out. We are probably going to be among the last tourists to Syria in a generation.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the account of our trip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Levant.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The civil war in Syria has now been running inexorably for three years. In that time: At least 150,000 people have been killed. The total number of deaths could be about 22o,000. Half the population is believed to have fled their homes. The total number of refugees is around 2.5 million. One million of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14200,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195\/revisions\/14200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}