{"id":1011,"date":"2007-06-20T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1011"},"modified":"2007-08-15T09:18:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T07:18:15","slug":"random-pieces-of-life-in-haifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1011","title":{"rendered":"Random pieces of life in Haifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a man washing his dog with a garden hose on Hamegenim Street last night.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish I had gotten a picture, because he had put the dog in a shopping cart so that it would not run away.<\/p>\n<p>This country is a haven for those who love pickled veggies&#8230;cabbage, cucumbers, cauliflower, olives, beets&#8230;it really is done well here.\u00c2\u00a0 yum.<\/p>\n<p>My interaction with Israelis is usually limited to taxi\/sherut drivers and wait staff at restaurants.\u00c2\u00a0 Between work, social activities, programs at the BWC, and friends\/family visiting from all over the world, I rarely have time to do anything else.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of you who read my blog may not understand how it is that I can know people from all over the world, and why it is such a constant thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Every two weeks a new pilgrim group arrives in Haifa, and their pilgrimage lasts for 9 days.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, the &#8220;Baha&#8217;i world&#8221; is rather small, communicates openly, and moves around quite a lot.\u00c2\u00a0 So you end up seeing a lot of Baha&#8217;is, and 1 or 2 degrees of separation between people who know each other.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten so used to the rather <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/eyair\/86816575\/\">patchwork style<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0of buildings and homes that it is strange to me when I see things that are newer\/well maintained.\u00c2\u00a0 There are buildings here that haven&#8217;t been fixed since last summer&#8217;s war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a man washing his dog with a garden hose on Hamegenim Street last night.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish I had gotten a picture, because he had put the dog in a shopping cart so that it would not run away&#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":[2,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai","category-haifa","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}