{"id":20629,"date":"2018-07-30T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=20629"},"modified":"2018-07-30T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:35:41","slug":"happy-birthday-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2018\/07\/happy-birthday-baghdad.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Baghdad!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

According to the good folk at Wikipedia in was today, the 30th of July in the year 762 that the Caliph Al-Mansur<\/a> commissioned the construction of a new capital.<\/p>\n

It would become one of the great world cities.<\/p>\n

It certainly has weathered it all, war, famine, disease, greatness, decline, resurgence.<\/p>\n

So, happy one thousand, two hundred, and fifty-sixth birthday, Baghdad! May there be many more\u2026<\/p>\n

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