{"id":26866,"date":"2018-12-25T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T09:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26866"},"modified":"2018-12-25T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T09:27:01","slug":"bethlehem-woodcraftsmen-struggle-to-keep-xmas-tradition-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26866","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem: Woodcraftsmen struggle to keep Xmas tradition alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65\">\n<p>Hand-carved wooden mangers and statues made in Bethlehem are sought-after around the world.<\/p>\n<p>But the centuries-old trade is under threat because the Christian population is dwindling in the Israeli-occupied Holy Land.<\/p>\n<p>However, that is creating an opportunity for Palestinian artisans.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Natasha Ghoneim reports from Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand-carved wooden mangers and statues made in Bethlehem are sought-after around the world. But the centuries-old trade is under threat because the Christian population is dwindling in the Israeli-occupied Holy Land. However, that is creating an opportunity for Palestinian artisans. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Natasha Ghoneim reports from Bethlehem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}