{"id":1213,"date":"2012-06-26T18:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T18:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2012-06-26T18:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T18:57:27","slug":"bethlehem-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/26\/bethlehem-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in Bethlehem earlier this month I stood in Manger Square and listened as the <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/gail-simmons\/bethlehem-bells\">bells as they rang out from<\/a>\u00a0the ancient (4th Century) Church of the Nativity. I could hear the birds chirping in the background, and as the clanging faded mournfully away the mundane sounds of modern life &#8211; traffic, people &#8211; came to the fore once again &#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1216\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/sunset-in-bethlehem-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1216\" title=\"Sunset in Bethlehem 1\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/sunset-in-bethlehem-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset in Bethlehem \u00a9 Gail Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in Bethlehem earlier this month I stood in Manger Square and listened as the bells as they rang out from\u00a0the ancient (4th Century) Church of the Nativity. I could hear the birds chirping in the background, and as the clanging faded mournfully away the mundane sounds of modern life &#8211; traffic, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[31,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"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=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}