{"id":67,"date":"2005-10-05T15:27:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=67"},"modified":"2005-10-05T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T12:27:03","slug":"these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to feel like Fall, a little.  It&#8217;s been about 80F and slightly less humid.  You can walk down the street without sweating.  We sleep with a light blanket at night.  The AUB students are back and noisy.  Bananas and grapes have replaced plums and pistachioes in the markets.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Ramadan started yesterday.  Observant Muslims are fasting during daylight hours and celebrating with feasts in the evening.  Last night, our landlord&#8217;s daughter brought us a plate of one of the many Ramadan sweets, cream-filled and flavored with pistachio.  In the more traditional areas, near Bourj al-Barajneh, there are colorful streamers and moon shapes stretched high above the streets.  Last night, as I sat on the terrace just past sunset, I could hear families in the apartments around, who had gathered to break the fast (iftar). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to feel like Fall, a little. It&#8217;s been about 80F and slightly less humid. You can walk down the street without sweating. We sleep with a light blanket at night. The AUB students are back and noisy. Bananas and grapes have replaced plums and pistachioes in the markets. Also, Ramadan started yesterday. Observant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}