{"id":3675,"date":"2013-05-03T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/index.php\/2013\/announcing-the-2014-tour-april-28-to-may-19\/"},"modified":"2013-05-03T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:23:00","slug":"announcing-the-2014-tour-april-28-to-may-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2013\/announcing-the-2014-tour-april-28-to-may-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2014 Tour! April 28 to May 19."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eym7sPsP_sQ\/UYQAZnlaekI\/AAAAAAAAAMs\/uH_0fK0UBEU\/s1600\/DSC_5455.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0fc51_DSC_5455.JPG\" width=\"212\" \/><\/a><span>The itinerary for the 2014 tour is almost ready to be posted. We&#8217;ll be visiting more sites in the West Bank\/Palestine, including biblical Shechem (modern Nablus), Sebaste (capital city of ancient kings Omri and Ahab), Jacob&#8217;s well, among others. Click on the link on the right side of the page to go to the tour website or to view last year&#8217;s itinerary. <i>Faith Today<\/i> magazine did an interview with me about the tour. It turns out to be a fine advocacy piece for why people should consider taking an &#8220;academic&#8221; study tour led by a professor rather than a generic tour. One good reason: someone I know is leaving today for a tour to Israel, and is not visiting the Palestinian territories at all. Not even Bethlehem. I find it odd that a Christian group would not visit Bethlehem or any other sites in Palestine. To read the article <span>click here:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.faithtoday.ca\/faithtoday\/20130506#pg87\">Faith Today.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Photo: Gordon Matties. <span>A window in the staircase at the Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The itinerary for the 2014 tour is almost ready to be posted. We&#8217;ll be visiting more sites in the West Bank\/Palestine, including biblical Shechem (modern Nablus), Sebaste (capital city of ancient kings Omri and Ahab), Jacob&#8217;s well, among others. Click on the link on the right side of the page to go to the tour [&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\/3675"}],"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=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}