{"id":87494,"date":"2026-10-18T09:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87494"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:09:04","slug":"french-in-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/french-in-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"French In &#8216;Shock&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/10\/18\/multimedia\/18int-france-shock-whjf\/18int-france-shock-whjf-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=avif&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"Overturned bikes burn with large flames and black smoke on a street. Several people in dark hoodies watch the fire, with tall buildings and a crowd in the background.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">France was in a state of shock on Sunday, as citizens woke to streets littered with shattered glass and images of burned-out government buildings after the country\u2019s largest demonstrations in years devolved into riots and looting.\u00a0The unrest on Saturday \u2014 which led to some 1,200 arrests \u2014 caused widespread damage to several symbols of the state, including a 19th-century city hall in Limoges, a town in central France renowned for its porcelain, that was largely destroyed in a nighttime arson attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">Rioters attacked city halls from Lille in northern France to Marseille in the south, where masked infiltrators broke into the local government headquarters and tipped over a bust of Marianne, a symbol of the French Republic. Fires also destroyed a tourist office in Lyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: France was in a state of shock on Sunday, as citizens woke to streets littered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87496,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87494\/revisions\/87496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}