{"id":1412,"date":"2012-03-22T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crosscultural\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2012-03-28T14:26:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T18:26:46","slug":"beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2012\/03\/22\/beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7086\/7013299605_d8edbb7c7d.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7086\/7013299605_d8edbb7c7d_m.jpg\" alt=\"Hannah Tissue, Anna Hershey, Michelle Miller, Taylor Swantz, and Linnea Slabaugh pose with a great view\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Beauty. If I had one word to describe my time here so far, I would have to choose that one. The energy of the Egyptians, the hospitality of the Bedouins in Jordan, the honor and passion I saw in every Palestinian, and the diverse landscapes of Israel all fall into this one-word description. All of this has been beauty in my eyes; the question is, how do I capture it?<\/p>\n<p>Pictures? Maybe.<br \/>\nVideos? Closer.<\/p>\n<p>My camera can only go so far. I have realized that the lens that I see is different from what everyone else is taking in, and what we take from it will make one big collage of all of our experiences. I wish I could just bottle them all up for a forever keepsake, but I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I have come to accept that taking in every single moment is impossible. Being able to account for every mountain top I saw or to recite every Arabic word I learned is not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>This past week was a week of independent travel. During this time I had a lot of time to reflect on my trip so far and to really soak in my experiences. I quickly realized that I don&#8217;t want to sit back quite yet, for this journey is not over. I came to the conclusion that I want to wholeheartedly relish every moment, even if it means getting soaked to the bone or climbing 7,000 feet to get there. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that will be gone in the blink of an eye, and I want my eyes to be wide open during all of it.<\/p>\n<p>-Michelle Miller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty. If I had one word to describe my time here so far, I would have to choose that one. The energy of the Egyptians, the hospitality of the Bedouins in Jordan, the honor and passion I saw in every Palestinian, and the diverse landscapes of Israel all fall into this one-word description. All of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2012\/03\/22\/beauty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beauty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}