{"id":6725,"date":"2024-04-09T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T11:58:10","slug":"syria-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2024\/04\/09\/syria-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria in Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article from Lina Sinjab includes references to IT infrastructure, social media and the internet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It [the Syrian Government] introduced a system for people to pay government bills by bank transfer, via a mobile app. But many don&#8217;t have access to banks or mobile phones. Another system then emerged that allows you to pay electronically without a bank &#8211; but you still need a mobile phone. And sometimes the generators running the telephone masts run out of fuel, and the network drops out.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Syria I came back to is not the one I left <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XRq5RKDIDb\">https:\/\/t.co\/XRq5RKDIDb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary Bunt (@garybunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garybunt\/status\/1777618433955205243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from Lina Sinjab includes references to IT infrastructure, social media and the internet: &#8220;It [the Syrian Government] introduced a system for people to pay government bills by bank transfer, via a mobile app. But many don&#8217;t have access to banks or mobile phones. Another system then emerged that allows you to pay electronically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,264],"tags":[166,806],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria","category-syria-internet","tag-syria","tag-syria-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}