{"id":8676,"date":"2013-06-28T04:46:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T01:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2015-04-09T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T20:57:09","slug":"memory-and-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/memory-and-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory and Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once a week, I come to visit my father. We slowly walk on the balcony.<\/h3>\n

We gaze \u00a0at the orange groves and the old 19th century Arab building deteriorating but still beautiful.<\/h3>\n

Lately, I see tents.<\/h3>\n

Archaeologists are excavating!<\/h3>\n

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Every week there are more tents. We look at them, and I say to him that our family history of six generations actually is quite new in this land. It seems there are so many memories hidden under our own legs.<\/h3>\n

Every week, I tell him this story; he smiles with surprise.<\/h3>\n

From this panoramic view, the memory of the past is a complete oblivion.<\/h3>\n

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When I meet the enthusiastic archaeologist and look at the balcony from the opposite side- he is vividly telling me stories of past cultures reborn from this soil.<\/h3>\n

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Less than one kilometer from this spot I buried a notebook at our orchard<\/a><\/span>, with the history of the world as I grasped it at the age of seven. I did it for someone to find in the future.<\/h3>\n

Alas! Not even this diligent archaeologist can find this memory at my old home’s soil.<\/h3>\n

Where do I begin?<\/a><\/p>\n

Where is home?<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Mound Hacker’s Map\u00a0around the world<\/span> <\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once a week, I come to visit my father. We slowly walk on the balcony. We gaze \u00a0at the orange groves and the old 19th century Arab building deteriorating but still beautiful. Lately, I see tents. Archaeologists are excavating! Every week there are more tents. We look at them, and I say to him that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,443,431,432,204,538],"tags":[585,723,421,14,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}