{"id":18253,"date":"2012-12-31T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T07:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=18253"},"modified":"2012-12-31T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T08:01:51","slug":"angels-in-aleppo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=18253","title":{"rendered":"Angels in Aleppo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a quick glimpse of the Qur&#8217;an in a Guardian report from war-torn Syria ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/dec\/28\/aleppo-revolution-abu-ali-sulaibi\">Noted in passing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SPEC-continuance-of-angels.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SPEC-continuance-of-angels.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC continuance of angels\" width=\"590\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SPEC-continuance-of-angels.png 590w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SPEC-continuance-of-angels-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It always interests me to see echoes of the visionary in everyday life, and this comment by a local commander in Aleppo, Syria is interesting both for the curious blend of ideas and references that <strong>Abu Ali<\/strong> has picked up along the way, and for its direct echo of the Qur&#8217;anic motif of angels accompanying the faithful in battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a quick glimpse of the Qur&#8217;an in a Guardian report from war-torn Syria ] . Noted in passing: . It always interests me to see echoes of the visionary in everyday life, and this comment by a local commander in Aleppo, Syria is interesting both for the curious blend of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,753,676,687,440],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-islam","category-scriptures","category-specs","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18253"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18261,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253\/revisions\/18261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}