{"id":36,"date":"2020-04-28T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/?post_type=rara-portfolio&#038;p=36"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:49:48","slug":"sepulcher","status":"publish","type":"rara-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/portfolio\/sepulcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepulcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"flex-container\">\n  <div class=\"image-container\">\n    <img\n      src=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/files\/2020\/04\/sepulcher-1-scaled.jpg\"\n      alt=\"sepulcher 1\"\n    \/>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"image-container\">\n    <img\n      src=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/files\/2020\/04\/sepulcher-2-scaled.jpg\"\n      alt=\"sepulcher 2\"\n    \/>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"image-container\">\n    <img\n      src=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/files\/2020\/04\/sepulcher-3-scaled.jpg\"\n      alt=\"sepulcher 3\"\n    \/>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"poem-caption\">\n  Jemil learning the hard way my reasons for packing light to visit Old City\n  Jerusalem. The main thoroughfare leading to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher\n  and the front of the Church itself.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"poem-text\">\n  <p>Dark, musty chaos<\/p>\n\n  <p>\n    People weeping<br \/>\n    People praying<br \/>\n    People waiting<br \/>\n    People pushing\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>The Church of the Holy Sepulcher<\/p>\n\n  <p>The place of Jesus\u2019s empty tomb<\/p>\n\n  <p>\n    This place is holy<br \/>\n    This place is history<br \/>\n    This place is crowded<br \/>\n    This place is a mess\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>Or it was last time<\/p>\n\n  <p>Now, in the evening, it\u2019s dark, musty, contemplative<\/p>\n\n  <p>\n    People weeping<br \/>\n    People praying<br \/>\n    People waiting<br \/>\n    People singing\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>The Muslim man takes my hand<\/p>\n\n  <p>He starts to sing too<\/p>\n\n  <p>\n    Jemil Abdu<br \/>\n    His father\u2019s name <br \/>\n    His middle name <br \/>\n    His Arab name\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>His name got us stopped at the border for five hours<\/p>\n\n  <p>They searched his bags<\/p>\n\n  <p>\n    He\u2019s Ethiopian<br \/>\n    He\u2019s Muslim<br \/>\n    He\u2019s American<br \/>\n    He\u2019s my friend\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>It\u2019s his first time in the Holy City<\/p>\n\n  <p>And he\u2019s honest to a fault<\/p>\n\n  <p>\n    With the special investigator at the border<br \/>\n    With our classmates<br \/>\n    With me<br \/>\n    With his God\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>Jemil trusts his God to judge all justly and mercifully<\/p>\n\n  <p>The Muslim makes this place holy for me<\/p>\n\n  <p>\n    He sings of baptism<br \/>\n    He sings of healing<br \/>\n    He sings of forgiveness<br \/>\n    He sings of my faith\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>Our faith grows together here<\/p>\n\n  <p>Different and the same all at once<\/p>\n\n  <p>\n    We sing<br \/>\n    We pray<br \/>\n    We weep<br \/>\n    We wait\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>We wait for peace<\/p>\n\n  <p>We wait for something higher<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark, musty chaos<\/p>\n<p>\n  People weeping<br \/>\n  People praying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","rara_portfolio_categories":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rara-portfolio\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rara-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rara-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rara_portfolio_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rara_portfolio_categories?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}