{"id":4930,"date":"2015-01-08T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T12:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/northamptonseminar\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2015-01-08T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T15:55:11","slug":"christians-in-the-holy-land-dont-call-us-arabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/northamptonseminar\/2015\/01\/08\/christians-in-the-holy-land-dont-call-us-arabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians in the Holy Land: Don\u2019t Call Us Arabs"},"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>The Arameans say they came to the Holy Land before the Arabs, and that Israel is the only place in the Middle East where they will have freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Link to article at The Tower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetower.org\/article\/christians-in-the-holy-land-dont-call-us-arabs\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.thetower.org\/article\/christians-in-the-holy-land-dont-call-us-arabs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arameans say they came to the Holy Land before the Arabs, and that Israel is the only place in the Middle East where they will have freedom. \u00a0 www.thetower.org\/article\/christians-in-the-holy-land-dont-call-us-arabs\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2043,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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