{"id":615592,"date":"2009-11-26T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloggingbeirut.com\/archives\/1653-guid.html"},"modified":"2009-11-26T07:42:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:42:03","slug":"bulldozing-ancient-ruins-in-downtown-beirut-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/615592","title":{"rendered":"Bulldozing Ancient Ruins in Downtown Beirut (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    facing Martyrs Square, Virgin, Le Grey, &amp; White a bulldozer is clearing ancient ruins to make way for yet another building&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=beirut&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=55.148262,135.263672&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Beirut,+Lebanon&amp;t=h&amp;ll=33.898563,35.507378&amp;spn=0.003571,0.006968&amp;z=18&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=beirut&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=55.148262,135.263672&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Beirut,+Lebanon&amp;t=h&amp;ll=33.898563,35.507378&amp;spn=0.003571,0.006968&amp;z=18\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"popfetcherimage\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloggingbeirut.com\/uploads\/mobile\/IMG_0025.jpg\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloggingbeirut.com\/uploads\/mobile\/IMG_0025.serendipityThumb.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Click for full size image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"popfetcherimage\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloggingbeirut.com\/uploads\/mobile\/IMG_0026.jpg\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloggingbeirut.com\/uploads\/mobile\/IMG_0026.serendipityThumb.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Click for full size image\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: a senior archeologist has confirmed that this land is being developed, but ample time will be given for a thorough archeological dig to excavate and document all potential artifacts before clearing the way for the foundations of the new building<\/p>\n<p>tags: downtown, beirut, lebanon, real estate, building, bulldozer, heavy machinery, solidere <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>facing Martyrs Square, Virgin, Le Grey, &amp; White a bulldozer is clearing ancient ruins to make way for yet another building&#8230; View Larger Map UPDATE: a senior archeologist has confirmed that this land is being developed, but ample time will be given for a thorough archeological dig to excavate and document all potential artifacts before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":779,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2A8U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}