{"id":48440,"date":"2021-04-15T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=48440"},"modified":"2021-04-15T08:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:53:53","slug":"ramadan-decorations-up-in-jerusalem-as-palestinians-prepare-for-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/ramadan-decorations-up-in-jerusalem-as-palestinians-prepare-for-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan Decorations Up In Jerusalem As Palestinians Prepare For Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Palestinians took part in events over the weekend to decorate the streets of the Old City for the Islamic holy month<br \/>\nColourful lanterns and ornate Ramadan decorations filled the streets of Jerusalem on Monday as Palestinians prepared for a holy month freer of COVID-19 restrictions than at the height of the pandemic.<br \/>\nAhead of Ramadan\u2019s expected start on Tuesday, the mood in the Old City was far more joyful than last year when prayers were suspended at the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam\u2019s third holiest site.<br \/>\nAlthough Jerusalem is still without foreign tourists, far more people were roaming the Old City, where shops reported brisk business.<br \/>\nRadio Islam spoke to Ehab Jallad who is a Palestinian activist in Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ramadan Decorations Up In Jerusalem As Palestinians Prepare For Ramadan by Radio Islam International\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1029835900&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1080&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Palestinians took part in events over the weekend to decorate the streets of the Old City for the Islamic holy month Colourful lanterns and ornate Ramadan decorations filled the streets of Jerusalem on Monday as Palestinians prepared for a holy month freer of COVID-19 restrictions than at the height of the pandemic. Ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Jerusalem.png?fit=400%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-cBi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 22:54:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}