{"id":979,"date":"2007-03-18T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/979"},"modified":"2009-01-11T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T05:32:10","slug":"the-madness-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/979","title":{"rendered":"the Madness of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I can&#8217;t claim to be a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination, but this weekend I have been heeding the siren call of the NCAA college basketball&#8230;and last night the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/collegesports\/2003624019_south18.html\">Xavier vs Ohio State game<\/a> was so intense I was actually shouting. hah.<\/p>\n<p>So I took a little break from the basketball craziness to visit some of the Holy Places on Saturday&#8230;I didn&#8217;t take a lot of pictures because it felt good to just watch, listen, and participate in the visit. The sun came out and the sea air was crashing against my senses&#8230;what a wonderful day.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=424968537&amp;size=o\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/175\/424968537_e05d16d05c_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(House of Abdu&#8217;llah Pasha, Saturday)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I can&#8217;t claim to be a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination, but this weekend I have been heeding the siren call of the NCAA college basketball&#8230;and last night the Xavier vs Ohio State game was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai","category-haifa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}