{"id":6089,"date":"2015-09-24T07:58:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinkramer.org\/sandbox\/?p=6089"},"modified":"2015-09-24T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:58:45","slug":"mecca-you-dont-know-what-youve-got-til-its-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2015\/09\/mecca-you-dont-know-what-youve-got-til-its-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mecca: You don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;ve got &#8217;til it&#8217;s gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Eid al-Adha, culmination of the pilgrimage to Mecca, now marred by yet another tragedy that has left hundreds dead in a stampede. (Earlier, it was a crane collapse.) In a new photo gallery, I offer some commentary on the stupendous transformation of Mecca in our time. If you haven&#8217;t followed it closely, and (like me) you don&#8217;t have any plans to visit Mecca anytime soon, the images (and the numbers) may astound you. The effect on Islam? Unpredictable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/martin_kramer\/galleries\/72157627940174432\/\" target=\"_blank\">Follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/martin_kramer\/galleries\/72157627940174432\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6090\" src=\"http:\/\/martinkramer.org\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Meccagallery.jpg\" alt=\"Mecca photo gallery\" width=\"440\" height=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/files\/2015\/09\/Meccagallery.jpg 609w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/files\/2015\/09\/Meccagallery-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change in Mecca will accelerate. Effect on Islam? Unpredictable. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2015\/09\/mecca-you-dont-know-what-youve-got-til-its-gone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1828,101392,101393,2242],"class_list":["post-6089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-islam","tag-mecca","tag-pilgrimage","tag-saudi-arabia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}