{"id":12,"date":"2011-04-25T22:44:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T22:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2013-04-03T20:16:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T20:16:50","slug":"about-ramallah-cafe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"About Ramallah Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_04352.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-122\" title=\"IMG_0435\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_04352-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_04352-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_04352-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Ramallah Caf\u00e9, from veteran journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?page_id=6\">Sandy Tolan,<\/a> chronicles daily life in a land of conflict.\u00a0 The stories are based primarily on reporting from the West Bank, with analysis and commentary from Los Angeles, where I am often based. The blog mixes on-the-ground impressions of &#8220;normal&#8221; life with reporting and commentary from my pieces in Al Jazeera, the Christian Science Monitor, Salon, NPR and elsewhere. \u00a0The Daily Life blog will document what it feels like on the ground in the region now.\u00a0 Much of it will be off-the-map material, personal impressions, moments in time, and insights from ordinary people in the context of the broader ongoing conflict.\u00a0 Many of the postings will chronicle my work on a new book about a Palestinian musical visionary &#8211; a child of the first intifada &#8211; and the exceptional group of international musicians, and Palestinian children from the West Bank and the refugee camps in Lebanon, who together are building something extraordinary.\u00a0 (The book&#8217;s working title: Children of the Stones.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ramallah Caf\u00e9, from veteran journalist Sandy Tolan, chronicles daily life in a land of conflict.\u00a0 The stories are based primarily on reporting from the West Bank, with analysis and commentary from Los Angeles, where I am often based. The blog mixes on-the-ground impressions of &#8220;normal&#8221; life with reporting and commentary from my pieces in <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?page_id=12#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}