{"id":406,"date":"2015-02-22T03:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T08:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/?p=406"},"modified":"2015-02-22T03:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T08:21:27","slug":"back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/2015\/02\/22\/back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Back home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/files\/2015\/02\/meknes-e1423856260106.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-359\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/files\/2015\/02\/meknes-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"_ScannedMedia = Kodak VPS III 160_ImageColorType = ICTypeScene\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>After a long, 14-hour flight, I am back at home. On the left is the mysterious photo taken by Tamara W. Hill\u00a0in Meknes that I look at every day as I leave the house. It appears to be two images superimposed on each other, which is why it looks so jarring&#8211;as though there is something a little bit off\u00a0kilter.\u00a0I don&#8217;t have any mementoes of this trip to Saudi Arabia, probably because I never really got enough of an understanding of Riyadh. I don&#8217;t take photos on my trips&#8211;except to post on Facebook as a modern version of postcards&#8211;and I rely on physical objects to jog my memory. I did, however, bring back Arabic clothing, colorfully patterned and loose, which I will wear. I also\u00a0have an abaya, the long black coat that Arab women wear, which was made in Clifton, New Jersey, in a shop\u00a0run by Palestinian women from Jordan.\u00a0Something about the cut\u00a0reminds me of the clothes worn by women here in the 1950s. I can see in my mind&#8217;s eye all sorts of uses for that coat, but I think it is best left, folded and put away in the closet.\u00a0One of the wonderful things about taking a trip&#8211;any trip&#8211;is coming back and seeing ordinary things in\u00a0 different way.\u00a0I came back with a desire to think about technology and interconnectedness. About how communities\u00a0can be formed through electronic media and mediation and how\u00a0small opportunities and\u00a0ideas\u00a0can grow exponentially through crowd-sourcing. That&#8217;s all for now&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long, 14-hour flight, I am back at home. On the left is the mysterious photo taken by Tamara W. Hill\u00a0in Meknes that I look at every day as I leave the house. It appears to be two images superimposed on each other, which is why it looks so jarring&#8211;as though there is something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}