{"id":1382,"date":"2012-12-17T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2012-12-17T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T10:58:28","slug":"christmas-in-the-holy-land-time-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/17\/christmas-in-the-holy-land-time-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in the Holy Land (TIME Magazine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was very pleased to be asked by TIME Magazine to write a piece on<a href=\"http:\/\/style.time.com\/2012\/12\/14\/a-perfect-christmas-in-the-holy-land\/\"> Christmas in the Holy Land<\/a> (Palestine and Israel), based on interviews with prominent citizens there. My priority was to talk to people representing the three\u00a0Abrahamic\u00a0faiths, each of whom in some capacity work at bringing the\u00a0different\u00a0religions and communities together.<\/p>\n<p>After much research and avid networking\u00a0I managed to find\u00a0five such individuals, from Nazareth (in Israel) and Bethlehem, East Jerusalem and Ramallah (in \u00a0Palestine)\u00a0including\u00a0the president\u00a0of the\u00a0Palestinian\u00a0Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and the first female mayor of Bethlehem, Vera Baboun, who were kind enough to give me some of their precious time despite being hugely busy with national and international commitments. I really hope you enjoy reading their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/holy-land-christmas-32.pdf\">here&#8217;s the PDF version<\/a>, which has better photos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1383\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/17\/christmas-in-the-holy-land-time-magazine\/sunset-in-bethlehem-3-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1383\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1383 \" alt=\"Sunset in Bethlehem 3\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/sunset-in-bethlehem-3.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset in Bethlehem, from the roof of the convent of Brigettine Sisters<br \/>\u00a9 Gail Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very pleased to be asked by TIME Magazine to write a piece on Christmas in the Holy Land (Palestine and Israel), based on interviews with prominent citizens there. My priority was to talk to people representing the three\u00a0Abrahamic\u00a0faiths, each of whom in some capacity work at bringing the\u00a0different\u00a0religions and communities together. After much [&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":[31,51,52,62,69,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"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=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}