{"id":7367,"date":"2025-04-26T21:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7367"},"modified":"2025-04-26T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T02:47:02","slug":"7367","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/04\/26\/7367\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Hezbollah\u2019s explosion in Beirut?\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine it was as large. \u00a0The 2020 blast was started by almost 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate are resulted in an earthquake and affected about half of Lebanon.\u00a0 There were over 200 fatalities, 7,000 injuries, and over a quarter million displaced persons, and property damage of $15 billion.\u00a0 But \u2026 Iran did it to itself both times.\u00a0 See in the news today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/huge-explosion-at-iranian-port-kills-5-injures-hundreds\/\">\u201cHuge explosion at Iranian port kills 5, injures hundreds,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 4-26-25.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/artc-3rd-round-of-nuclear-talks-between-iran-u-s-concludes-in-oman\">&#8220;3rd round of nuclear talks between Iran, U.S. concludes in Oman,\u201d<\/a> i24NEWS, 4-26-25.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Hezbollah\u2019s explosion in Beirut?\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine it was as large. \u00a0The 2020 blast was started by almost 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate are resulted in an earthquake and affected about half of Lebanon.\u00a0 There were over 200 fatalities, 7,000 injuries, and over a quarter million displaced persons, and property damage of $15 billion.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/04\/26\/7367\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}