{"id":1403,"date":"2013-01-17T19:07:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2013-01-17T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:07:50","slug":"hebrons-glass-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/17\/hebrons-glass-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebron&#8217;s glass story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June last year I spent a few days in Hebron, Palestine, meeting some of the\u00a0extraordinary glassblowers who work in searing\u00a0temperatures to practice their craft in the centuries-old way. Hebron, lying on a crossroads of ancient caravan routes, and with the necessary minerals \u00a0nearby, is famed for its glass &#8211; as well as its ceramics and leatherwork. With the occupation &#8211; and virtual strangulation &#8211; of the city by extremist Israeli settlers life has become very difficult for these craftsmen, whose ancestors for centuries exported their wares throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>With me on the trip was the photographer and film-maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgeazar.com\/\">George Azar<\/a> who took some gorgeous photos of the glassmakers, their wares and the old \u00a0city of Hebron (recently nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Status). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudiaramcoworld.com\/issue\/201301\/hebron.s.glass.history.htm\">Here&#8217;s our story about them.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1406\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/hebron-glass-geroge-azar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1406 \" alt=\"Glassblowing in Hebron \u00a9 George Azar\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/hebron-glass-geroge-azar.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traditional glassblowing in Hebron \u00a9 George Azar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June last year I spent a few days in Hebron, Palestine, meeting some of the\u00a0extraordinary glassblowers who work in searing\u00a0temperatures to practice their craft in the centuries-old way. Hebron, lying on a crossroads of ancient caravan routes, and with the necessary minerals \u00a0nearby, is famed for its glass &#8211; as well as its ceramics [&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":[48,69,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"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=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}