{"id":55353,"date":"2017-05-31T16:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55353"},"modified":"2017-06-01T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:29:59","slug":"after-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55353","title":{"rendered":"After the Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/postlapsarian\">postlapsarian<\/a> Aleppo, in other words ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose the editors at the <strong>New York Times Magazine<\/strong> were intentionally making a Christian theological point with the title they bestowed on this cover story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/24\/magazine\/aleppo-after-the-fall.html\">Aleppo After the Fall<\/a>. but I&#8217;ll take my apposite religious resonances where I find them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aleppo-after-the-fall-w-title.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aleppo-after-the-fall-w-title.png 518w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aleppo-after-the-fall-w-title-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a slightly bigger version:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aleppo-after-the-fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aleppo-after-the-fall.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aleppo-after-the-fall-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How beautiful destruction can be in the early light &#8212; yet no less destructive for its beauty. <\/p>\n<p>You can view the whole thing even better here &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/05\/28\/magazine\/28syria12\/28syria12-superJumbo.jpg\">Al-Hatab Square in Aleppo\u2019s Old City. Credit Sebasti\u00e1n Liste\/Noor Images, for The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pieter Van Ostaeyen<\/strong> termed the accompanying article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/p_vanostaeyen\/status\/869947717933510656\">an absolute must-read<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Beauty: in which, the divine may be recognized.<\/p>\n<p>The Fall. Oh ah, yes, the Fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; postlapsarian Aleppo, in other words ] . I don&#8217;t suppose the editors at the New York Times Magazine were intentionally making a Christian theological point with the title they bestowed on this cover story: Aleppo After the Fall. but I&#8217;ll take my apposite religious resonances where I find them. Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788,526,497,139,778,663,440,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-media","category-photography","category-poetry-of-war","category-syria","category-uncategorized","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55353","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=55353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55383,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55353\/revisions\/55383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}