{"id":463,"date":"2009-01-09T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2023-03-26T02:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T02:29:53","slug":"driven-away-by-a-place-i-once-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/09\/driven-away-by-a-place-i-once-loved\/","title":{"rendered":"Driven away by a place I once loved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Funny how years go by and one of the most things people have in memory are moments of sorrow and blood. I might not have reached an age where I can talk about decades of experience. Although I\u2019m in my late 20s I have witnessed more than half a dozen wars in my country. My father before me witnessed wars and civil war; my grandfather witnessed two world wars (true far from our region but had its effects).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like all people in my country, we all had our share of wars. As a nation, we never had rest from conflicts and if some year by chance we had some relief it will always be ruined by some mercenaries. I never had a moment of peace from the day I woke on this earth and for what? For making our lives better, for improving our way of living, and for the sake of our comfort. All that I have seen since my birth was misery, sorrow, agony, hatred, and betrayal and all who tried to rise against these vices were called idealists, fools or even worse those people were called \u201cwho don\u2019t know how to play the game.\u201d Yes, for most of them, it\u2019s just a game, what kind of game? I don\u2019t know and I don\u2019t care, for them \u201cthe politicians\u201d we are just some pawns on a board of chess if they lost it wouldn\u2019t matter to them because it\u2019s like any other piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bYes, I lived in a country that took from me, took my childhood, and took from my teen years, drove me away like millions before me to migrate and forsake what was before a sanctuary for philosophers, writers, and artists and now it became a whore house for warlords and thieves.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how years go by and one of the most things people have in memory are moments of sorrow and blood. I might not have reached an age where I can talk about decades of experience. Although I\u2019m in my late 20s I have witnessed more than half a dozen wars in my country. My<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link\">\n\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/09\/driven-away-by-a-place-i-once-loved\/\" class=\"link-btn theme-btn\"><span>Read More <\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[73,34],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conscience-writing","tag-immgration","tag-lebanon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ask-the-razz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}