{"id":36047,"date":"2016-08-20T04:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T10:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36047"},"modified":"2016-08-20T04:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T10:57:29","slug":"the-dead-sea-is-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/the-dead-sea-is-dying.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Sea is dying."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36048\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36048\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/800px-Dead_Sea_from_Masada.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36048\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36048\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/800px-Dead_Sea_from_Masada.jpg\" alt=\"The dying Dead Sea\" width=\"596\" height=\"447\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dead Sea from atop Masada in 2007, in a photograph by David Weekly. The scene has changed markedly since even then. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen massive changes myself since I first lived in Jerusalem back in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m horrified to think that that\u2019s been nearly four decades now. \u00a0I never imagined being so <em>old<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, in historical terms, let alone from a geological perspective, forty years is <em>nothing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiselady.com\/landtours\/holy-land-tour-11\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Come with me to Israel in early May 2017<\/a>\u00a0and see the Dead Sea while you still can.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you want to understand why the Dead Sea is disappearing, how soon it might be altogether gone, and what measures are being considered to save it, you\u2019ll find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/next\/earth\/dead-sea-dying\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this article<\/a> interesting:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Oslo, Norway<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ve seen massive changes myself since I first lived in Jerusalem back in 1978. \u00a0 I\u2019m horrified to think that that\u2019s been nearly four decades now. \u00a0I never imagined being so old. \u00a0 On the other hand, in historical terms, let alone from a geological perspective, forty years is nothing. \u00a0 Come with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Dead Sea is dying.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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