{"id":185,"date":"2009-03-31T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2009-03-31T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:34:23","slug":"learning-to-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/learning-to-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-189\" title=\"1-new-political-campaign-lebanon\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/1-new-political-campaign-lebanon.jpg\" alt=\"1-new-political-campaign-lebanon\" width=\"450\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/1-new-political-campaign-lebanon.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/1-new-political-campaign-lebanon-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"2-weird-campaign\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2-weird-campaign.jpg\" alt=\"2-weird-campaign\" width=\"450\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2-weird-campaign.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2-weird-campaign-158x300.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-192\" title=\"3-what-are-we-primitive1\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/3-what-are-we-primitive1.jpg\" alt=\"3-what-are-we-primitive1\" width=\"437\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/3-what-are-we-primitive1.jpg 437w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/3-what-are-we-primitive1-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-193\" title=\"4-primitive-tribe-lebanese\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/4-primitive-tribe-lebanese.jpg\" alt=\"4-primitive-tribe-lebanese\" width=\"450\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/4-primitive-tribe-lebanese.jpg 458w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/4-primitive-tribe-lebanese-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-194\" title=\"5-one-week-later\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/5-one-week-later.jpg\" alt=\"5-one-week-later\" width=\"441\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/5-one-week-later.jpg 441w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/5-one-week-later-300x29.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-195\" title=\"6-four-and-five\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/6-four-and-five.jpg\" alt=\"6-four-and-five\" width=\"427\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/6-four-and-five.jpg 427w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/6-four-and-five-170x300.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m sure all of you who have driven by the Lebanese Highway have noticed the latest political campaign. Well I guess these campaigns have really been targeting &#8211; EVERYONE &#8211; lately, and by that I mean all levels of IQ, all ages. No brain challenging whatsoever, simple brainwashing-take-you-by-the hand and &#8216;feed-you-with-a spoon&#8217; messages. I personally felt quite offended to see the exaggerated level of simplicity in the messages of the latest campaign. What do they take us for? If only they invested all those wasted billboards money in teaching the citizens more profitable values \u2013 but it&#8217;s probably our job to do that.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I&#8217;m sure all of you who have driven by the Lebanese Highway have noticed the latest political campaign. Well I guess these campaigns have really been targeting &#8211; EVERYONE &#8211; lately, and by that I mean all levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[139,213,383,675,927,981],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-stories","tag-billboards","tag-car","tag-election-campaign","tag-lebanon","tag-primitive","tag-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}