{"id":71,"date":"2006-06-27T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-06-27T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T11:26:00","slug":"shalom-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/shalom-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Shalom, Ellen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/207\/1451\/1600\/blog3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/207\/1451\/320\/blog3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>So my relative Ellen (yes, I do know exactly how we&#8217;re related, but there isn&#8217;t space in this post to go through the whole explanation) has a collection of photographs of friends in places all over the world holding up signs which say &#8220;Hello, Ellen&#8221;.  I saw this collection in her office in downtown Atlanta the same day I got on the plane to Jerusalem, and I decided then that I&#8217;d add to her collection. I&#8217;ll send her a print when I get home.<\/p>\n<p>The gold dome to the left of my head is the Dome of the Rock, and you can see the walls of Old Jerusalem spreading out just below the dome. I was fiddling with the timer on my digital camera when a nice guy stopped and offered to take my picture for me. The shadow at the bottom left isn&#8217;t really a shadow: it&#8217;s the shutter which failed to open completely. (Shadows like that are not so common in Israel, but a shadow can lower the temperature incredibly.) On the left is southern Jerusalem, where we&#8217;ve been staying, and on the right is East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my relative Ellen (yes, I do know exactly how we&#8217;re related, but there isn&#8217;t space in this post to go through the whole explanation) has a collection of photographs of friends in places all over the world holding up signs which say &#8220;Hello, Ellen&#8221;. I saw this collection in her office in downtown Atlanta &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/shalom-ellen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shalom, Ellen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-19","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}