{"id":1829,"date":"2011-02-08T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/index.php\/2011\/announcing-next-tour-april-30-may-21-2012\/"},"modified":"2011-02-08T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T03:27:00","slug":"announcing-next-tour-april-30-may-21-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2011\/announcing-next-tour-april-30-may-21-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Next Tour April 30-May 21, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_6_1RzmvP12U\/TVH3i4kvxGI\/AAAAAAAAAMg\/ks-CuC687Tk\/s1600\/Gordon+Matties+4.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/a0219_Gordon%2BMatties%2B4.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nI am beginning to plan the itinerary for my seventh study tour. I love leading these tours and experiencing the delight of tour participants as they encounter the people and places of\u00a0 Israel and Palestine, and immerse themselves at the same time in biblical texts and ancient sites.<\/p>\n<p>\nI do my best to plan a tour in which participants meet the people of the land and learn to appreciate the contours of Middle Eastern landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>\nStay tuned for a link to next year&#8217;s itinerary. Until then, have a look at last year&#8217;s tour website at the link to the right of this post. Please contact me if you have an interest in joining a Christian tour like this one. You&#8217;ll find my contact information on the tour website.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn various posts from now on I&#8217;ll be presenting some of my favourite photos. The one at the top of this post is a collection of hand-blown glass from a glass factory in Hebron. This stop is well off the beaten path&#8211;a shop that doesn&#8217;t get many tourist buses passing by. Hebron, of course, is rarely visited by tourist groups. Yet it has the famous ancestral burial site, the Cave of Machpelah (Genesis 23), where we also find the best example of Herodian architecture in the whole land.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_6_1RzmvP12U\/TVH6oIFlA9I\/AAAAAAAAAMk\/j0EofCgEEUE\/s1600\/Hebron-Shrine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/a0219_Hebron-Shrine.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Do consider joining me as we head off the beaten path now and then.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am beginning to plan the itinerary for my seventh study tour. I love leading these tours and experiencing the delight of tour participants as they encounter the people and places of\u00a0 Israel and Palestine, and immerse themselves at the same time in biblical texts and ancient sites. I do my best to plan a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[74,144,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}