{"id":2094,"date":"2006-11-02T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2006-11-02T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T14:52:00","slug":"turning-swords-into-ploughshares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/turning-swords-into-ploughshares\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning swords into ploughshares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this.<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6102290.stm\">BBC<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In biblical times they said &#8220;turn your swords into ploughshares&#8221;, now in northern Ethiopia a tradesman is bringing the saying into the 21st Century.<br \/>\nIn his workshop in Mekele, just 120 km from Ethiopia&#8217;s border with Eritrea, Azmeraw Zeleke is turning burnt-out shells into cylinders used in coffee machines.<br \/>\nMost of the shells are left over from the 1998-2000 war between the two countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this. From the BBC: In biblical times they said &#8220;turn your swords into ploughshares&#8221;, now in northern Ethiopia a tradesman is bringing the saying into the 21st Century. In his workshop in Mekele, just 120 km from Ethiopia&#8217;s border with Eritrea, Azmeraw Zeleke is turning burnt-out shells into cylinders used in coffee machines. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/turning-swords-into-ploughshares\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turning swords into ploughshares<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-xM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}