{"id":813,"date":"2011-09-18T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2011-09-18T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T13:09:41","slug":"coffee-cups-and-facebook-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/18\/coffee-cups-and-facebook-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Cups &#038; Facebook Friends (BBC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My trip to Palestine earlier this year proved a fruitful one, and I came back with many stories to tell. One rather personal story was recently broadcast on the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/console\/p00jwysz\">&#8216;From Our Own Correspondent&#8217;<\/a> (second story), with this intoduction by the BBC&#8217;s Alan Johnson:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You might say that in life, there are few more important things than finding the right person to love. But what&#8217;s the best way of doing that? Some say it&#8217;s all about personal feelings and romance &#8211; and luck letting the right two people meet at just the right time. But others aren&#8217;t keen on leaving everything to chance. They would say that with a bit of planning, marriage and love can both be arranged. In many cultures and countries, people are finding their own ways to blend both approaches and take a little from each. For them, both traditional and modern strategies for mate-finding have their advantages. Gail Simmons has been watching one such relationship develop amid the hills of the West Bank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(And here&#8217;s some <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/about\/default.stm\">more information<\/a> about the programme, which has been running for over 50 years.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My trip to Palestine earlier this year proved a fruitful one, and I came back with many stories to tell. One rather personal story was recently broadcast on the BBC&#8217;s &#8216;From Our Own Correspondent&#8217; (second story), with this intoduction by the BBC&#8217;s Alan Johnson: &#8220;You might say that in life, there are few more important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}