{"id":2072,"date":"2010-12-24T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2010-12-31T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T12:45:03","slug":"photo-of-the-moment-an-iraqi-christmas-in-amman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/showcase\/photo-of-the-moment-an-iraqi-christmas-in-amman\/","title":{"rendered":"An Iraqi Christmas In Amman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Christmas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2073\" title=\"An Iraqi Christian girl attends a Christmas mass at Chaldean Catholic church in Amman\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>REUTERS:<\/strong> <em>An Iraqi Christian girl attends a  Christmas mass at Chaldean Catholic church in Amman December 22, 2010.  Thousands of Iraqi Christians fled to neighboring Jordan following a  spate of bombings that targeted churches in Iraqi cities in the past few  years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a great photo. Maybe because the  spirituality is almost palpable. With the Christmas lights faded in the  background, the hands clasped, a young child reminding us of more  innocent times. The photo is a reminder of the difficulties of living in  this region. Of conflict. Of safe havens. Of wars. Of truce. How easily  stability can be taken away in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>It is simply peaceful. Stripped of politics. Free.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASEEM TARAWNAH: The photo is a reminder of the difficulties of this region. Of conflict. Of safe havens. Of wars. Of truce. Stripped of politics, it is free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,90,73],"tags":[3326,229,18305,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072"}],"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=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}