{"id":1727,"date":"2006-12-24T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T14:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2006-12-24T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T14:46:11","slug":"a-bethlehem-christmas-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"A Bethlehem Christmas photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imeu.net\/news\/article003937.shtml\"><strong>Steve Sabella and the IMEU, Dec 23, 2006 <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.karmalised.com\/sabella-007-06_001.jpg?resize=450%2C350\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><br \/>A Palestinian boy and his father light a candle at the Altar of the Nativity in the Church of the Nativity, where the Virgin Mary is said to have given birth to Jesus Christ. (Steve Sabella)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.karmalised.com\/sabella-066-06_001.jpg?resize=450%2C250\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>Bethlehem is surrounded by a 25-foot high concrete wall built by Israel. It chokes the local economy and impedes movement. Palestinian Christians from Jerusalem and other towns need a permit to travel to Bethlehem. (Steve Sabella)<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imeu.net\/news\/article003937.shtml\"><strong>View the photo essay&#8230;<\/a> | (<a href=\"http:\/\/annies-letters.blogspot.com\/\">hat tip<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sabella and the IMEU, Dec 23, 2006 A Palestinian boy and his father light a candle at the Altar of the Nativity in the Church of the Nativity, where the Virgin Mary is said to have given birth to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-rR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}