{"id":1088,"date":"2011-12-12T14:42:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T14:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2011-12-12T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T14:42:34","slug":"letter-from-the-west-bank-guardian-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/12\/letter-from-the-west-bank-guardian-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the West Bank (Guardian Weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is (probably) my last post of 2011. It&#8217;s been an eventful year &#8211; uprisings and revolutions in the Middle East have brought many frustrations &#8211; but also new opportunities. As well as writing purely about travel I have branched out into more in-depth features: trying to tell the stories behind the news. One of the stories I heard is that of \u00a0an old Bedouin sheikh who I met in the desert, near Jerusalem in Palestine. He hosted me overnight in his goat-hair tent, and recounted memories from his childhood over sweet tea and bitter coffee. When he dies, a whole way of life will die with him, as the Bedouin are being &#8216;resettled&#8217; \u00a0&#8211; not only in Palestine, but throughout\u00a0much of the Middle East. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/nov\/02\/letter-from-palestine-desert-coffee\">Here, in 500 words, is his story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1089\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/sheikh-pic-adjusted-lo-res.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1089\" title=\"Sheikh-pic-adjusted-lo-res\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/sheikh-pic-adjusted-lo-res.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheikh Ishmael Ali al-Rashayda \u00a9 Gail Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is (probably) my last post of 2011. It&#8217;s been an eventful year &#8211; uprisings and revolutions in the Middle East have brought many frustrations &#8211; but also new opportunities. As well as writing purely about travel I have branched out into more in-depth features: trying to tell the stories behind the news. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[27,52,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}