{"id":195,"date":"2011-04-26T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinkel.us\/?p=195"},"modified":"2012-05-02T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:48:46","slug":"syria-best-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Syria &#8211; Best Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went through the nearly 2,000 photos that Derek and I took during our week-long stay in Syria and the photo below is by far the best of the bunch.\u00a0 I would like to take credit for it but this one belongs to Derek.\u00a0 I believe this was taken during our last night while walking in Damascus.\u00a0 After a 5 hour Damascus shopping spree, we were on our way back to the hotel.\u00a0 We took a side street off of Straight Street and happened upon a couple of metal shop workers still working&#8211;around 9 PM or so.\u00a0\u00a0 We initially passed them up but Derek had the good sense to go back and ask if he could get a photo of their shop.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how a great picture is made.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to have all of the pictures (not all 2,000 but the best of the bunch) posted by the end of May.\u00a0 I also hope to post some more stories and highlights from the trip so keep reading.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Damascus_Best.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Damascus_Best.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Damascus_Best.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Damascus_Best-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damascus metal shop workers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went through the nearly 2,000 photos that Derek and I took during our week-long stay in Syria and the photo below is by far the best of the bunch.\u00a0 I would like to take credit for it but this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/?p=195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damascus","category-middle-east","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}