{"id":5453,"date":"2023-03-26T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2023-03-26T14:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:35:52","slug":"fabled-city-amman-episode-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=5453","title":{"rendered":"Fabled City Amman Episode Is Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 10-Streets of Philadelphia (check out Amman&#039;s Roman theatre, Citadel, downtown vlog) #Jordan\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IHIZO0lMRR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amman- <\/strong>After much delay the first part of my Jordan series is finally online with the rest hopefully being uploaded in quick succession. I lost almost my entire first week here after my phone was crushed leaving Beirut which sent me down a tech rabbit hole it was hard to burrow out of. I haven&#8217;t finished the learning curve of filming and editing this series either so there&#8217;s still that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also learned that I apparently will need a higher end MacBook with way more storage space if I&#8217;m to continue this. I&#8217;ve only brought one 1TB Lacie Rugged drive with me and after each episode is fully safely online I have to trash all the original files. (I also didn&#8217;t buy enough Sandisk cards for the GoPro to boot). So things are really tight tech wise. But I&#8217;m totally making it all work somehow.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hands.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hands.jpg 720w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hands-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hands-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hands-560x420.jpg 560w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hands-260x195.jpg 260w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hands-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">i went out today to shoot some b-roll to finish this episode and suddenly realised I almost forgot to include something that was on my long awaited to-do list! The hand of the colossus of Hercules as is claws its way out of the dirt above the Amman citadel. \u00a92023 Derek Henry Flood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I go over in the episode, I first came here 25 years ago in the midst of a summer long backpacking adventure and was last here 20 years ago going to and from Baghdad and so it&#8217;s a whole deal to be back here and for weeks at that. On the surface there isn&#8217;t all that much happening in Amman as compared to Beirut where everything is happening right in front of you. You step out of your hotel there and it&#8217;s happening. Here things are going on but you have to be clued on. Or really dig into Arabic twitter. Like the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IHIZO0lMRR8\" target=\"_blank\"> Israeli ambassador is getting the boot <\/a>from Amman, for instance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was going to make this episode very differently than it ended up partly because I streamlined the narrative and partly cause of storage limitations on my laptop that mean can&#8217;t make super long videos. It just overwhelms this laptop. Like it physically gets crazy overheated which concerns me. So I just decided to make this one mostly about ancient Amman and keep things lite. I&#8217;ll do a separate one-off video later on Amman during the terror wars. I&#8217;m going to make occasional non-numeric episodes where the topic doesn&#8217;t quite fit what I&#8217;m doing overall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing I&#8217;m figuring out as I go it what i want this series to be. It&#8217;s taking some time to figure out. And I&#8217;m loving the process. 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