{"id":7713,"date":"2012-05-16T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/05\/arrival-in-tel-aviv.html"},"modified":"2012-05-16T09:20:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:20:32","slug":"arrival-in-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/05\/arrival-in-tel-aviv.html","title":{"rendered":"Arrival in Tel Aviv"},"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> We have made it to Tel Aviv! Our flight was about an hour late leaving JFK. It was probably thanks to some of the initial delay that Maddie was able to catch the flight, since her flight to JFK was delayed. There was fog at JFK which was probably a major cause of both delays. So perhaps it would have worked out more or less the same with or without the fog.<\/p>\n<p> As I write this, we are still waiting to see if Maddie\u2019s luggage made it, and Loor has been taken aside for additional questions. Israel is teaching the group about how things work here from the very start!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/05\/wpid-Photo-May-16-2012-307-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/05\/wpid-Photo-May-16-2012-307-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have made it to Tel Aviv! 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