{"id":208420,"date":"2026-02-04T01:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208420"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:22:37","slug":"lessons-from-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208420","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR THE last two Christmases, businesses in Bethlehem have been shuttered and its dense network of streets left deserted. Not anymore.<br \/>\nToday, December 25 dawns with a hopeful change.<br \/>\nBusinesses have reopened, festive lights have been strung up, and families have dared to return to the Palestinian city that had been off limits ever since war broke out in Gaza&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2025\/12\/25\/lessons-from-bethlehem\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR THE last two Christmases, businesses in Bethlehem have been shuttered and its dense network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem.jpg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208420-lessons-from-bethlehem-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}