{"id":1775,"date":"2006-11-23T12:07:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T12:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2006-11-23T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T12:07:47","slug":"2006-11-23-skeptic-in-damascus-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"Skeptic in Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahzarwan.net\/blog\/?p=314\">Elijah&#8217;s post from Damascus<\/a>. I love Damascus, having lived there in the mid-1990s, and he gets a lot of the things about it right. Even if Syria is largely depressing, it&#8217;s a fantastic country and people. And even better than Damascus is Aleppo. Both cities have a &#8220;den of spies&#8221; 1950s feel to them, which may or may not be because up to a quarter of the population informs the <em>mukhabarat<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/_wp-content\/99_303063062_701136361a-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.arabist.net\/wp-content\/\/_wp-content___99_303063062_701136361a.jpg','popup','width=500,height=461,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/_wp-content\/99_303063062_701136361a-tm.jpg\" height=\"396\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Wp-Content   99 303063062 701136361A\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zarwan\/sets\/72157594386349160\/\">full set of Damascus pics<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahzarwan.net\/blog\/?p=314\">Elijah&#8217;s post from Damascus<\/a>. I love Damascus, having lived there in the mid-1990s, and he gets a lot of the things about it right. Even if Syria is largely depressing, it&#8217;s a fantastic country and people. And even better than Damascus is Aleppo. Both cities have a &#8220;den of spies&#8221; 1950s feel to them, which may or may not be because up to a quarter of the population informs the <em>mukhabarat<\/em>&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/_wp-content\/99_303063062_701136361a-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.arabist.net\/wp-content\/\/_wp-content___99_303063062_701136361a.jpg','popup','width=500,height=461,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/_wp-content\/99_303063062_701136361a-tm.jpg\" height=\"396\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Wp-Content   99 303063062 701136361A\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSee the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zarwan\/sets\/72157594386349160\/\">full set of Damascus pics<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}