{"id":14037,"date":"2012-01-16T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T10:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=14037"},"modified":"2013-06-26T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T11:48:42","slug":"jordan-another-disappearing-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/religion-in-the-middle-east\/jordan-another-disappearing-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan: Another Disappearing Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14041\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14041\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14041 \" alt=\"Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/J4.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-14041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14038\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14038\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14038 \" alt=\"A pilgrim walks past a Jordanian flag. Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/J1.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-14038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pilgrim walks past a Jordanian flag. Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14039\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14039\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14039 \" alt=\"Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/J2.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-14039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14040\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14040\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14040 \" alt=\"Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/J3.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-14040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14042\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14042\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14042 \" alt=\"A pilgrim fills a plastic bottle with baptism water. Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/J5.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-14042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pilgrim fills a plastic bottle with baptism water. Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14043\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14043\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14043 \" alt=\"Pilgrims watch as others fill plastic bottles with baptism water after a mass at a baptism site on the Jordan River. Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/J6.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-14043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pilgrims watch as others fill plastic bottles with baptism water after a mass at a baptism site on the Jordan River. Source: Reuters\/Muhammad Hamed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I thought these images were quite interesting and worth posting up. While the Baptism site is considered one of Jordan\u2019s national treasures, and rightly so, to say nothing of a symbol of co-existence \u2013 every time I see an event like this take place I\u2019m reminded of the fact that this body of water may not be around very long.<\/p>\n<p>These images of people holding up empty plastic bottle waiting to be filled are quite metaphorical. The river has been sucked dry over the decades (mostly by Israeli farms) to nothing more than a trickle of murky water, which has been polluted several times with sewage water. These images are a reminder of a piece of heritage that is currently in the process of being lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASEEEM TARAWNAH: The river has been sucked dry over the decades to nothing more than a trickle of murky water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":14041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,148,90,77,73],"tags":[18311,18305,1148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28947,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037\/revisions\/28947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}