{"id":659,"date":"2010-06-27T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=659"},"modified":"2010-06-27T05:50:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T05:50:33","slug":"the-mourning-of-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/the-mourning-of-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mourning of Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another post related to the World Cup (\u0643\u0627\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645). In Lebanon, we use the slang &#8220;futbal.&#8221; In Arabic we say \u0643\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u062f\u0645, which translates literally&#8211;and naturally&#8211;to &#8220;foot-ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I recently wrote about my first World Cup, which took place in Italy in 1990. I was living in Beirut, Lebanon at the time. The following photo was taken not too far from where I lived and watched some of those games. It was taken by a friend near my Grandmother&#8217;s home in Beirut after the Italian squad (\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u062a\u062e\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0625\u064a\u0637\u0627\u0644\u064a) made a shock first round exit from this World Cup. Fans of Brazil thought it would be a good idea to hold a mock &#8220;funeral&#8221; for the Azzurri (the Azzurri is the nickname for the Italian national team); so they made fake coffins and draped them with Italian flags to symbolize the downfall of the Italian team, who until then were the defending world champions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/06\/36456_556752307380_62900617_32620557_5703303_n.jpg\" alt=\"The mourning of Italy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/06\/36456_556752307380_62900617_32620557_5703303_n-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"A mock funeral to mark Italy&#039;s exist from South Africa 2010\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/06\/36456_556752307380_62900617_32620557_5703303_n-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/06\/36456_556752307380_62900617_32620557_5703303_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>A mock funeral held in Beirut to mourn Italy&#8217;s exit from South Africa 2010.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3531,9717,9718,8846,2637],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-arabic","tag-arabic-fans","tag-beirut","tag-lebanon","tag-world-cup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}