{"id":570,"date":"2014-12-05T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2014-12-05T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:22:16","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been away from this blog for quite a while. Life has been interesting in the meantime. I&#8217;ve stayed in the US and honestly my energy has mostly been used up dealing with my health. I&#8217;m feeling a bit better these days so I hope to put some more posts up here and on my main blog <a title=\"Life as I see it\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isaharr.com\">Life as I see it<\/a>. I think I&#8217;m going to use this blog to talk about my Arabic language use, the middle east, and Yemen of course.<\/p>\n<p>I work in a store these days (I&#8217;m not going to talk about my employer online) and I see a fair number of people from Arabic speaking countries so I get to practice my Arabic from time to time. Plus we&#8217;ve had a variety of native speakers in the store as well. I don&#8217;t get to talk a lot but it does remind me just how much of the language I&#8217;m losing. Think I&#8217;d like to work on that but there&#8217;s just too much demanding my time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I will work on some thoughts on what&#8217;s going on in Yemen and I&#8217;ll try not to rant too much:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been away from this blog for quite a while. Life has been interesting in the meantime. I&#8217;ve stayed in the US and honestly my energy has mostly been used up dealing with my health. I&#8217;m feeling a bit better these days so I hope to put some more posts up here and on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}